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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station by simonh on Sunday March 03, 2019 @01:08PM (#19295808)
No light for part of the year vs no air ever. Hmm, let me think about that one for a minute.

I think settling Mars will and should happen, but anyone who doesn’t realise it will be thousands of times more expensive, risky and dependent on external support than eg Antarctica I think isn’t really grasping the difference in scale of the problem.

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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station by simplicio on Sunday March 03, 2019 @01:45PM (#19296022)
Yea, I mean, just as far as accessibility, it costs 10,000 times more to deliver a pound of cargo to the ISS vs McMurdo station in antartica. I don't have numbers for the building and maintenance of the two stations, but presumably its even more than that.
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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station by anticensor on Sunday March 03, 2019 @02:24PM (#19296266)
Mars does have an atmosphere, although unbreathable.
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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station by anoncake on Monday March 04, 2019 @04:38AM (#19299977)
I don't think it's called air if you can't breath it.
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