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Same evidence. Opposite conclusions.
The Edge of Progress is a two-book series that asks where the next trillion dollars of industrial capital should go.
In The High Ground: Claiming the Void, the Moon offers propellant from lunar ice at 300 to 1,000 times lower cost than from Earth. The ratio is permanent. A 5-15% chance at hundreds of billions is a classic asymmetric bet like those in venture capital and oil exploration.
In The Deep Harvest: Dredging the Below, Earth wins with closer, cheaper frontiers. Less than 1% of deep crust explored. Superhot geothermal at 10x density. Rich seafloor nodules. Natural hydrogen seeps. These measured edges beat space by orders of magnitude.
Both books use the same framework. Resources, not human ambition, are the protagonists. Both give concrete proposals, costs, timelines, and milestones. Neither hedges. Each claims the other uses the wrong gradient.
Pick one. Or both.
The economics won't change. Capital charges the sharper edge at lightspeed.
