zapkitty wrote:
The only reason all nations have supported this agreement is because it is a practical impossibility at this point. Nations one and all will quickly abandon this treaty under one pretense or another if it becomes viable.
… but if the paradigm shift that enables this is the advent of aneutronic fusion then the reason for colonizing in the first place, the resources, becomes a non-issue in turn.
Quite possible to some extent. Depends on the ore quality available, and how much fusion helps in other ore extraction or reuse.
