One of several reasons that typical governments are in no hurry to start setting up off planet colonization. Another being, once you DO try and get authoritarian with/piss off a population of orbital humans, THEY have the high ground and can just drop a middling sized space rock on any earth entity causing them grief, no nuclear weapons required for a (non radioactive, 100% clean & green!!!) megaton range impactor. Go look at online asteroid impact calculators...
One of several reasons that typical governments are in no hurry to start setting up off planet colonization. Another being, once you DO try and get authoritarian with/piss off a population of orbital humans, THEY have the high ground and can just drop a middling sized space rock on any earth entity causing them grief, no nuclear weapons required for a (non radioactive, 100% clean & green!!!) megaton range impactor. Go look at online asteroid impact calculators...
https://www.eaps.purdue.edu/impactcrater/crater_c.html
https://education.down2earth.eu/impact_calculator
Is this poetry in motion or the inverse?