Re:Why Not Mars
by coldtea on Monday January 02, 2023 @07:28AM
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>you argue that it isn't economically viable to do this, and this is the reason it hasn't been done.
Whereas the 100x more costing and 100x logistically harder case for Mars is?
>Currently the people in Antarctica are there on research projects, increasing it to 20K people would imply what?
That we've invested the infrastructure to make living there more livable and more of a reality to have an actual community there, even if at baby steps.
If anything that would make the idea of setting up anything not like the moon-vists on Mars more viable - lots of much simpler problems would have to be solved in a place like Antarctica first because one can even pretend to be able to solve the 100x bigger issues on Mars.
>What do you think the effect of putting an output on Mars will be on Climate Change?
Hugely detrimental, if not for anything else, for the false hope that climate change doesn't matter, we can always go to Mars if push comes to shove.
Whereas the 100x more costing and 100x logistically harder case for Mars is?
>Currently the people in Antarctica are there on research projects, increasing it to 20K people would imply what?
That we've invested the infrastructure to make living there more livable and more of a reality to have an actual community there, even if at baby steps.
If anything that would make the idea of setting up anything not like the moon-vists on Mars more viable - lots of much simpler problems would have to be solved in a place like Antarctica first because one can even pretend to be able to solve the 100x bigger issues on Mars.
>What do you think the effect of putting an output on Mars will be on Climate Change?
Hugely detrimental, if not for anything else, for the false hope that climate change doesn't matter, we can always go to Mars if push comes to shove.