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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by Xss3 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:00PM (#45662826)
Even a Venusian colony would be significantly more viable than mars.

Mars sucks. The moon sucks too. We need rotating space habitats. With gravity and hookers.

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by viraptor on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @07:29PM (#45663092)
I'm not sure 500⁰C and 100x earth pressure is in any range of viable...
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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by nativeit on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:45PM (#45664376)
Elevation.
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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by Xss3 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:05PM (#45664507)
No, the surface sucks. The clouds are where its at.
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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by dotnet00 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:49AM (#45669130)
The clouds are even less viable, every resource would have to be imported from space.

Mars is infinitely more viable than anywhere in Venus for the simple fact that you are on solid ground with resources all around you.

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by Xss3 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:30AM (#45670651)
I haven't seen any evidence we could actually harness the resources on mars without tech that doesn't exist. E.g. fusion power.

Without orbital infrastructure shipping supplies in neither are viable.

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Re:NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission by dotnet00 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:43AM (#45670849)
You don't need fusion power to melt ice, to move regolith over habitats for shielding, or to melt rocks to extract and process metals. I have absolutely no idea where you get the notion that it meeds fusion power? Solar power or things like kilopower reactors are a great option for Mars, especially for bootstrapping.
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