Antarctica or the Takla Makan Desert don't give you any "advantage" over the existing habitable zones on earth - mars does and that advantage is that it's a dif

Antarctica or the Takla Makan Desert don't give you any "advantage" over the existing habitable zones on earth - mars does and that advantage is that it's a different fucking planet. Mars is also a stepping stone to the belt and the outer solar system and like it or not it's our next frontier. Antarctica isn't going to yield you the same reaches as the belt will or heck even Mars because currently "polluting" Mars would actually be beneficial or at the least immaterial. Humanity needs a new frontier to expand too, we tried making space our next frontier but it didn't caught on, maybe now it will if not it will be quite sad imo as it would leave the digital frontier as the only other frontier to expand into.