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A comment on Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System. Parent comment

Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by yongjik on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:50PM (#12766833)
A nuclear-proof bunker hidden beneath Greenland with air/water filter system will be 1000 times cheaper, and will promise a better survival chance in almost any scenario.

If humanity is wiped out on Earth, people in Mars are fucked anyway: they will be one depressurization accident from extinction.

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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by jaggederest on Saturday October 22, 2016 @01:47AM (#12767416)
If you don't think a space colony would have overengineered multiple redundancy against depressurization, you don't understand the psychological effect that vacuum being 6 inches away would have.
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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by DennisP on Saturday October 22, 2016 @09:11AM (#12768540)
Assuming all the Martians live in a single pressurized structure.
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