"Wdtabor" wrote in message
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Ourselves, other countries here on earth.


Ourselves and other countries here on Earth are not in space.



Who are we trading with on the open ocean?


To my knowledge, nobody.



Space is not a place where people build WalMarts, it is a place we travel
through and send satelites and their signals through to do business here
on Earth.


But we've been doing that for years without outposts on the moon or Mars.
Why are they necessary now to do business here on Earth?