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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by tsimionescu on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:52PM (#31783390)
Going to Mars is easy. We've even done it twice in the last 5 years.

Making a self-sustaining city on Mars is impossible. And even if not impossible, certainly costs many tens of trillions of dollars, which is as good as.

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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by evandale on Sunday June 19, 2022 @09:19PM (#31805241)
Impossible is pretty strong. Who knows, maybe there's material that can be used for construction buried 100 feet under the surface. Or we figure out how to build stuff with Mars dirt. Humans are the most resourceful and adaptable beings in the universe (that we know of) and life, uh, always finds a way.
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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by mavhc on Monday June 20, 2022 @08:03AM (#31809277)
How many tonnes of stuff will it take to be self sustaining?

1 million was estimated, which would cost $100 billion

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