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>>18972805
There's a niche that'll be critical. EM shielding to protect a construction project, before its own shielding is finished.

I've heard proposals for plasma bubbles, but I'm unfamiliar with the engineering. (Ionizing a gas between sheets of glass? I have no idea.) However, in terms of finished projects, radiation isn't an issue. It won't penetrate the 30-50 feet of soil, or the metal support structure, on the outside of any county-sized habitat.

>>18972834
WWIII could easily be an extinction level event - the Great Filter playing out. It is specifically what we want to avoid.

A moon base is, from what I hear, the most cost-effective source of water (and thus fuel) within reasonable travel distance of Earth orbit. (Far less expensive than blasting it up from here.)

Who wants to open the Lunar Taco Bell? First Lunar brothel owner? (I believe the legal status of Luna is firmly in lazes-faire territory.)