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It is probably a lot easier and cheaper to colonize the Sahara desert than Mars, but since there are less incentive to do it we won't. Mars surface area : abou
by seren 8y ago
It is probably a lot easier and cheaper to colonize the Sahara desert than Mars, but since there are less incentive to do it we won't.
Mars surface area : about 144.8 million km²
Earth Desert area* : about 44 million km²
[*] including Antarctica & Arctic
- ben_w 8y ago> but since there are less incentive to do it we won't. I dunno about that, but I agree with everything else: we could easily end up “terraforming” the deserts (including Antarctica) just to prove the tech for a Mars colony is viable. Putting a full city, complete with self-sustaining farms, on the top of Mt Everest or at the south pole is technically easier than Mars, though perhaps not politically.
- monetus 8y agoThere is actually an international attempt to do that, but I don't know much about it. https://www.saharaforestproject.com/ https://www.saharaforestproject.com/