it's not stable though I dunno how people can't see this lol.
The US and China are in the same balance beam and at times or through different perspectives it might look like one is rising above the other but you ever seen what happens when one partner on seesaw jumps off? the other guy doesn't go up that's for sure
I disagree. Completely.
Large scale mining on another celestial body is similar to AI. It's not actually gonna happen in our lifetime we're not as close as we wanna believe.
We are those people in the 1800s who think everyone would have jet cars and shit by the year 2000. Nobody is that close. Likely they'll blow each other up and start fighting in space before anyone gets to mine.