I’m starting a startup. I’ve decided to go for something big.
Homes, IN SPACE!
We’re talking about Enormous Structures built to provide living space, places for shopping, and to grow food.
We spin them to provide artificial gravity within the general living area and access to hard vacuum and micro-gravity where it’s needed.
Living in one of these Structures would mean being able to launch small orbiting experiments essentially for free.
Gerard O’Neill popularized the idea in the 1970s and expected the government to pay for it.
Once built, it would pay for itself by producing solar panels in space that would beam power back to Earth.
My startup builds that platform and sells housing to entrepreneurs and their employees who want to live in outer space.
Entrepreneurs who build solar panels.
Entrepreneurs who own stores to sell food and clothing inside the Structures.
Entrepreneurs who produce food for everyone inside the Structures.
Entrepreneurs who run transportation systems between the Structures.
Entrepreneurs who create things that are extremely expensive to attempt on Earth, but with access to hard vacuum and micro-gravity, are cheap and easy.
My base hypothesis is that a sufficient number of unsatisfied customers already want housing in space.