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Philip Metzger
Personal blog · philipmetzger.com/blogscienceculture
Philip Metzger's personal blog at philipmetzger.com covers science and culture. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Philip Metzger's blog for his papers and proposals on bootstrapping a space industry, and for asteroid and lunar resource economics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dive into space, sci-fi, cybersecurity, gadgets, and smart home tech with PhilipMetzger. Fresh insights, trends, and futuristic ideas in one place.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Preprint_Affordable-bootstrapping-of-space-industry-and-solar-system-civilization.pdf2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-02-11
What Hacker News says?
If you want some possibly-far-fetched but very high-ROI space investment strategies, have you seen the Phil Metzger et al proposal for rapid bootstrapping of space industry[1][2]? Even if off by orders of magnitude it would still dwarf the industrial output of the world within a few decades. [1] http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/affordable-rapid-bootstrap... [2] http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2…
Comment linking /blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Preprint_Affordable-bootstrapping-of-space-industry-and-solar-system-civilization.pdf
on “Why the world's biggest military keeps losing wars”Submitted Why Pluto Is a Planet (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm guessing that a small number of carbon-bearing asteroids could easily support a fairly large population. Asteroids contain a lot of material. http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/type-of-asteroid-to-mine-p...
Comment linking /blog/type-of-asteroid-to-mine-part-3/
on “Can anyone make money on the moon?”Submitted The Challenge of Mars Mining (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA similar proposal from a while back was one on "Rapid Bootstrapping of Space Industry," essentially concluding we could have a robust space industry with an industrial output 1,000,000x that of US GDP within about four decades - for as little as 12 metric tons landed on the moon to kickstart the process. The proposal relied heavily on automated systems and coming advances in robotics, but ignored other likely impro…
Comment linking /blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Preprint_Affordable-bootstrapping-of-space-industry-and-solar-system-civilization.pdf
on “Can we colonize the moon?”Submitted The Type of Asteroid to Mine, Part 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's the pre-print version: http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09... The final published version is behind paywall/subscription. Lots of other cool papers from the Space 2000 conference : http://cedb.asce.org/cgi/WWWdisplayrbn.cgi?RBN9780784404799
Comment linking /blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Preprint_Affordable-bootstrapping-of-space-industry-and-solar-system-civilization.pdf
on “Affordable, Rapid Bootstrapping of the Space Industry”