Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls

Re:Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and ... by pauletienney on Thursday September 10, 2015 @10:56AM (#10198417)

Elon Musk and his teams estimate that 1 million people on Mars would be enough to be earth-independant.

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Re:Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and ... by cryoshon on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:32PM (#10199377)

I'd estimate less. Either way, the main problem is hauling all those people and all that shit from here to there. 6 months is a long space journey.

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Re:Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and ... by tim333 on Friday September 11, 2015 @06:39AM (#10202952)

By the time we get to Mars we'll have pretty good robots. It's much easier to support them which is why they are trundling Mars as we speak and humans are decades off. It'd probably be a handful of people and a lot of robots.

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Re:Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and ... by Someone on Thursday September 10, 2015 @07:04PM (#10201099)

At what level of industrialization? I find it hard to believe that, for example, one can build a 20nm chip fab with a million people, keep a fleet of emergency helicopters operational (you would need only a few, and that makes it harder to do) or launch a set of GPS satellites.

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