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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by bckr on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:56PM (#32029650)
Except that Mars is a terrible location for a settlement in the next 100 years.

Bezos has the right idea, leaning into O'Neil cylinders.

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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by ceejayoz on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:15PM (#32029856)
Bezos needs to learn to crawl before he runs a marathon.
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by iab on Friday July 08, 2022 @10:18PM (#32030736)
Books -> 1-click shopping -> AWS —> Dyson Sphere
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by bckr on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:11PM (#32037157)
You missed the most important step:

"???"

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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by kamaal on Friday July 08, 2022 @10:32PM (#32030859)
The hard part is getting significant amounts of material into space. Once you do that you can do anything there. Go to Mars, build O'Neil cylinders or even make your own asteroid mining factories up there.
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by bckr on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:13PM (#32037177)
I recommend checking out O'Neill's book The High Frontier where he lays out a plan for how to do this.

Keyword: regolith

Mars is at least 10x harder. The path to space settlement is in our own backyard.

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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by mkr-hn on Friday July 08, 2022 @11:39PM (#32031378)
The only catch is you have to build five of them.
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