Re:Why Not Mars
by bckr on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:24PM
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> Permanent (self-sufficient) LEO human habitation doesn't make sense because there's no source of material there
Whole books have been written on the raw materials available in space, both from the moon and from Near Earth Objects.[]
Mars is a bad idea that needs to go away before we lose the opportunity to perform the actual next step, which O'Neill and others mapped out decades ago.
Whole books have been written on the raw materials available in space, both from the moon and from Near Earth Objects.[]
Mars is a bad idea that needs to go away before we lose the opportunity to perform the actual next step, which O'Neill and others mapped out decades ago.
[] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_the_Sky