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Re:Kharkovchanka – Soviet Antarctic Cruisers [video] by duxup on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:38PM (#23943034)
Considering the volume of resources expended to get people to mars and host them there and return them... I'm not sure that it is a fair comparison.
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Re:Kharkovchanka – Soviet Antarctic Cruisers [video] by valuearb on Friday July 24, 2020 @03:57PM (#23943776)
The volume of resources for a NASA style plan is indeed mind boggling.

But the Mars DIRECT and SpaceX plans are more than an order of magnitude cheaper and easier. The SpaceX plan it’s hundreds of explorers on Mars for less than $10B.

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Re:Kharkovchanka – Soviet Antarctic Cruisers [video] by duxup on Friday July 24, 2020 @04:55PM (#23944332)
Yeah no doubt they can save money but no getting around the sheer amount of mass you need to move to maintain humans.
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