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OK, so what is a satellite orbiting Neptune supposed to do, and who is going to pay to put one there? Trillions in market cap for that?

I think you are assuming technology and science are not going to evolve. IN 100,000 years we may be inhabiting every planet in our solar system and some outside it. If we are inhabiting Neptune it may make sense to have satellites there. Don't be short sighted.

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OK, so what is a satellite orbiting Neptune supposed to do, and who is going to pay to put one there? Trillions in market cap for that?

I think you are assuming technology and science are not going to evolve. IN 100,000 years we may be inhabiting every planet in our solar system and some outside it. If we are inhabiting Neptune it may make sense to have satellites there. Don't be short sighted.
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In 100K years our descendants may be as different from us as we are from Neanderthals. But do you think we'd evolve into something that can live on Neptune, or really any other planet?
https://science.nasa.gov/neptune/neptune-facts/#h-structure

Technology and science advancing has an unexpected effect: it increases the things we are capable of doing, but it also changes the things we are motivated to do. For example with an accelerator we can turn now turn lead into gold, but unlike medieval alchemists our scientists have no interest in doing so. The vacuum tubes we could make today with laser manufacturing would far exceed the capabilities of the good old 12AV7, but for obvious reasons no one is developing this technology.

Thus, I do not believe humans will ever live on another planet, in the form of biological humans. What if... when the time comes that our planet becomes obsolete and uninhabitable, we had made contact with innumerable other civilizations, we will have exchanged information with them (including our history, culture, and genome), we will have seen countless others appear and disappear, and understand that our time, as a particular people on a particular planet, is up, we've shared everything we've done, someone else can recreate our next generation somewhere else, and for us, physically, to up and move somewhere else isn't worth the trouble.

We would be like a 105-year old man on his last bed at the hospice. He sees his children, stooped over with age themselves, his grandchildren, his greats holding a great-great or two, and he's perfectly happy with what is going on. How important would it be, for him, to live for another month, with great effort and expense for him and those around him? Unlikely very much. That's what we will be. Maybe by that time we will have gotten the genomic and ecosystem data from some species that really can live on Neptune, and we've cloned them and put them there, and their homeworld will be doing the same for us, on some weird rocky little planet, full of that nasty corrosive oxygen and way too close to their star to be habitable by those Neptunian types.

That's how I see the future. Doesn't make for good entertainment. Musk is a visionary but so were all the science fiction writers and futurists of the past, and none of them did a good job of predicting where we will (want to) go next.