If I'm unsure what position I would be most suited for can I apply for several?
This blog post on the ethics of teaching debating may be relevant, Uses the dark arts terminology a bit and talks about exploiting biases.
How many stations are you considering a "fair number?"
At least a dozen, with a few hundred people working spaceside full time
Space factories for spaceship. It's much cheaper to build something heavy in space and have them launch from there. Of course you would have to mine asteroids instead of sending construction materials from the Earth.
Security concerns. If you want to test some form of nanotechnology, you better do that in space and nuclearize the whole thing (provided that nanotech is still extremely dangerous).
MIS (millionaires in space): once you live in outer space as a status signal, it's easier to befriend other rich weirdos in space.
Space factories for spaceship.
You still need a strong economic reason for the spaceships if we're looking at a scarcity society with plausible tech. (Unless there's enough public and political will for exploration for its own sake which would rquire its own explanation)
Space stations? As in, stations with humans in them? Pretty much none. Your best bet is to postulate some sort of alternate history in which electronics and computers never took off. Or you can go in the other direction, and postulate tiny space stations which house computing hardware running uploaded humans.
Interesting site.
Human mainteance is still required for satellites, especially if geostationary is becoming even more crowded,
Extremely wealthy libertarian seperatists.
Assuming there is still land available on earth it would be orders of magnitude cheaper to stay groundside.
Highly valuable technological processes that only work in zero g.
Such as?
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I think the main damage may actually come from female perception of male sexiness, (and conversely), e.g., a girl being disappointed in her boyfriend because he isn't Brad Pitt.
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Wy is that the "main" damage? I'd agree mmale appearance standards have also changed, but generic western society values women on their appearance more than men so you'd expect the psychological impat to be larger.