I'd believe it if I didn't know that you want to go into astronaumics, not politics.
Running for state rep would have been one way to rebound from flunking out of engineering school.
I really should have just finished answering this with my original quip that the astronaumics typo would be a good neologism for astronautical economics, instead of letting it languish in my drafts for four years.
But I remembered this today after being dragged to church because Father’s Day and oh my Galt was Christianity always this boring? So I started scribbling notes in the program, which started just as an orbital transfer sketch, but quickly turned into a list of things you would have to play off against each other when modeling interplanetary economics. For instance, what percentage of exports would you need to justify leaving the materials processing on-orbit at Mars when assuming particular prices and costs, or what the requirements for shipping up and down would be, or….
Well, long story short, this little exercise in the margins is probably going to end up breaking my computer with spreadsheets, and could quite possibly turn into a decent thesis topic.
I’ll keep you apprised of any developments.