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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by GoblinSlayer on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:50AM (#30302088)
>They're not going to send 1M tons of cargo to Mars without a deployment plan.

Can this happen? I imagine before we can settle on Mars we first should be comfortable flying there, and the latter should be sufficient for asteroid mining. But, right, our technology is just not at a comfortable level yet.

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by politician on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:49PM (#30318659)
Comfortable comes much later than possible. When it's possible to go, that's the time to go. The early Atlantic crossings weren't comfortable, just possible.
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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by GoblinSlayer on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:51AM (#30329783)
Unlike Atlantic, Mars isn't habitable, you can't settle there with merely possible crossing. Maybe first establish a colony at 1km depth in the ocean; we are relatively comfortable going there, but what it takes to run a colony there and would it be possible with only possible crossing?
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