Comment Re:oh wow (Score 5, Insightful) 129
I'd expect that from eight year olds, not adults.
Perhaps the problem is that you've lost hold of what makes 8-year-olds so delightful? There was a cynical curmudgeon about just about every technological advance throughout human history, and despite that flight is routine and inexpensive. Horseless carriages clog the roads. Skyscrapers crown cities. Nuclear reactors pump out gigawatts of electricity. Ships the size of skyscrapers ply the seas carrying stuff built by robots. We carry some significant percentage of all human knowledge in our pockets. At every step, there were doubters. You are that guy now.
If you want to manufacture stuff in space, you can't just jump right to space foundries and space smelters. Baby steps.