--What happens when we start building beyond the planet and need to accommodate for curvatures in space time?
By the looks of things, Star Trek fixes this issue by eliminating money.
In Avatar, there's a whole other interesting world of economic star travel where the mineral unobtanium is valued at 20 million per kg. Interstellar travel with back and forth trips to another world actually works out to be profitable for a company and that's set in 2154. With inflation at current rates 20 million ain't going to be much, so it seems like this problem get's solved. Or the company in that film has worse margins than air travel.
By the looks of things, Star Trek fixes this issue by eliminating money.
In Avatar, there's a whole other interesting world of economic star travel where the mineral unobtanium is valued at 20 million per kg. Interstellar travel with back and forth trips to another world actually works out to be profitable for a company and that's set in 2154. With inflation at current rates 20 million ain't going to be much, so it seems like this problem get's solved. Or the company in that film has worse margins than air travel.