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I disagree. You have no way of knowing this, much less proving it. And it's not a silly rhetorical battle, you're shifting the goalposts like crazy. The defender's advantage in space is immeasurable compared to a mere ocean. Given there's no stealth in space, they would literally know an...

Motte and Bailey tactics. "They might have a sufficient mass and delta v budget" is a very, very different animal from your previous position that military forces can be shipped as easily as supplies and mined goods. Goalpost move, a submarine (which you were replying to) isn't capable of...

No. Supplies can be sent the long way, on very high-efficiency low-speed paths, taking months to reach their destination, because stored goods don't need to breathe and eat along the way. Soldiers cannot, aside from robots which, as I've said, is what the Powers That Be want to send into space...

Nonsense. A space mining colony is going to have to be far more independent than any oil rig due to the tremendous distance of supply lines and massive expense of shipping things such distances. We're talking months instead of hours. It would be equivalent to 13 colonies along the east coast...

The trouble with that is, off-earth colonies are going to eventually want to get their own independence and the Powers That Be aren't keen on getting any new competition, especially competition that potentially has access to unlimited resources in space and might easily supplant them. They're...