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Re:Why Not Mars by mlindner on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:21PM (#34221512)
> Currently the people in Antarctica are there on research projects, increasing it to 20K people would imply what? Something other than research? What do you think will be required to make Antarctica housing of 20K people for 100 years economically viable.

This is besides the fact that we've mandated by international law that Antarctica is forbidden from being "economically viable" because of the restriction on any economic activity. Plentiful (more than 20K) people live and work in the far northern arctic on the European and the North American continent with conditions roughly equivalent to those seen in the less extreme portions of Antarctica.

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Re:Why Not Mars by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @03:12AM (#34229094)
That is because there is something to exploit. Be it gas, oil, diamonds, some ore, or having a military presence with sensor platform (radar, whatever). What they all have in common is constant resupply, or at least the possibility there of, if need be. Or bailing out.
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