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Re:Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About by AndrewKemendo on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:49PM (#15039066)
There are people who are attracted to the idea of living in a smaller community in a completely alien environment.

Stated like this, I have more empathy for such a community of Mars settlers if viewed as a lark and a kind of "oddball" enterprise, rather than what Mars colonists seem to be portrayed as now which is "SAVIORS OF HUMANITY."

The idea of having a human colony on Mars is absurd to me, and the idea that we should spend 100s of Billions on it is frustrating. However it would be interesting to see what a rag-tag group of one way explorers could do for a few $100M.

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Re:Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About by sqeaky on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:44PM (#15041319)
It won't always be a tiny community. Virginia an New york where both once tiny colonies.

The scale of a ship to mars today is not so dissimilar from the scale of boats across the Atlantic then.

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