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Not necessarily true. The artic and Antarctic destroy structures over time. It's also dark for several months at a time.
by russdill 8y ago
Not necessarily true. The artic and Antarctic destroy structures over time. It's also dark for several months at a time.
- simonh 8y agoNo light for part of the year vs no air ever. Hmm, let me think about that one for a minute. I think settling Mars will and should happen, but anyone who doesn’t realise it will be thousands of times more expensive, risky and dependent on external support than eg Antarctica I think isn’t really grasping the difference in scale of the problem.
- simplicio 8y agoYea, I mean, just as far as accessibility, it costs 10,000 times more to deliver a pound of cargo to the ISS vs McMurdo station in antartica. I don't have numbers for the building and maintenance of the two stations, but presumably its even more than that.
- anticensor 8y agoMars does have an atmosphere, although unbreathable.
- anoncake 8y agoI don't think it's called air if you can't breath it.