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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by mustafa_pasi on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:00PM (#27911336)
The quote is wrong. Antarctica is next. Then the moon. Then the bottom of the ocean.

But all these places are desolate of life and not even resource rich, so there is little point to go there. Mars is like this as well. It's not like you are colonizing a rich continent like America.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by m4rtink on Thursday July 22, 2021 @08:00AM (#27917873)
For in space infrastructure (that has the potential to bring immeasurable energy and resources long term) anyways available outside the Earth gravity well is a valuable resource, even just for stuff like radiation shielding.
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