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You're confusing "can't" with "don't want to". Nobody wants to colonize some desert patch, but many people want to colonize Mars for many different reasons. Sel
by bufferoverflow 8y ago
You're confusing "can't" with "don't want to". Nobody wants to colonize some desert patch, but many people want to colonize Mars for many different reasons. Self-sustaining will take time, but it's not unsolvable even with the current technology. It's just very expensive at the moment.
- lisper 8y ago"Very expensive" asymptotically approaches "unsolvable" for large values of "very". I do get that colonizing Nevada is nowhere near as glamorous and sexy as colonizing Mars. But if we can't do it in Nevada (and it is far from clear that we actually can) then Mars is just hopeless. You could do that experiment for a tiny fraction of the money being invested in launch vehicle development. If the results were negative, you could save an awful lot of money.