Sociopathic may be a better word. They are very unethical, and very greedy.

The people who benefit from that wealth in the USA contribute to political campaigns, and support like minded candidates like Donald Trump. The evisceration of the EPA and the SEC and of competent regulators who are not slavishly loyal to Trump himself has eliminated regulation which might slow this industry.

Doesn't matter which is which, since the "treatment" to rein in the disabling extremes of ADHD would still include limiting social media.

Linus Torvalds had demonstrated how fed up he was with Pottering's wide-ranging and stable system breaking schemes. The unannounced and disastrous "kill all background jobs" misfeature was typical, and took time and work to clean up from.

Shen the president himself is a convicted embezzler and tax fraud who hires so many convicted criminals for his cabinet, it's a hint.

I'm afraid that you, and history, ignored Rosalind Franklin, whose work was vital and also deserved the prize. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Unless, of course, you're giving $400,000,000 of airplane as a bribe to Trump.

Which is why you use solar-powered mirrors for energy. Do take a look at the SPS designs, basically using solar sails to reflect the energy to a generator which can transmit the power to a smelting plant, or keep it focused for smelting, or transmit the energy to Earth as a low density microwave beam. The mining equipment is a bootstrap operation. The first loads of iron smelted from the satellite are used to build the next generation of mining equipment. There is an initial startup cost a "priming of the pump"., but as much as possible you use space based resources.

Energy is _outrageously_ available once the first solar power mirror based plants are working. NASA's last estimates guessed about 20 years to provide return-on-investment for the first few built. They don't have to be in close proximity to the smelting, they can in theory beam the energy as microwaves across empty space.

There are many reasons. The start-up costs are high, and the risks of regulatory issues or unexpected technical issues are high. It's why it's been the province of governments, and business deeply allied with governments.

I said _nothing_ about it being easy, but this is exactly the sort of project NASA and their consultants look at regularly. SpaceX would be in a good position to start it with space-based solar power, if Elon nMusk had not gotten fixated on reaching Mars.

"Decarbonize the rocket fuel".... What rocket fuel? Use solar sails to guide asteroids, slowly to a feasible orbit. Use solar sails as well to mine Saturn's rings for ice, and solar power mirrors to electrolyze the ice for hydrogen and oxygen rocket fuel. Where is there carbon in the fuel?

Bans on Sharia law exist in numerous US states, though it's not a federal ban. Concerns about the treatment of women in communities which apply Sharia law locally are one of the reasons that many nations, including the UK and Poland, have struggled with the behavior of the recent floods of Muslim refugees. The Wikipedia article "Bans on Sharia Law" even cites Germany's attempts to limit communities self-administering Sharia law.

"Do your research". On what? The Golang, Rust, NodeJS, JPackage, CPAN, Pypi, or other source repo hosted tools with dependencies scattered everywhere? One may as well rely on the label "Made in America", it's impossible _by design_ to see past the "layer of abstraction" and verify the whole code stack. This is one of the primary goals of "object oriented" software, to conceal anything but the snippet you are tasked to work on.

There is plenty of iron, and untouched rare earths, shown in spectrographic analysis of asteroids. Mine them in space, pay some attention to tailings and exudates, and mining should be safe for thousands or even millions of years depending on the amount needed. Use the results directly in space for space construction, mine Saturn's rings for ice for life support and reaction mass, and we could have a real space industry.

Luna is not a setellite. It's not even a moon, it's part of a double planet.

Erratic trajectory, likely to leak from unexpected orifices, brittle, soft parts cracked from dehydration, contaminated with all sorts of radiation exposure. Oh, you were wondering about the satellite!