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My suggestion has long been a viable, long term colony at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Far more hospitable than Mars and exceedingly cheaper to get to and
by every 5y ago
My suggestion has long been a viable, long term colony at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Far more hospitable than Mars and exceedingly cheaper to get to and resupply. And as bonus, is an equally pointless waste of resources and possibly lives...
- TulliusCicero 5y agoIs that actually more hospitable than Mars? You can't breathe either place, but one has crushing pressure.
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agoAt least the trench doesn’t have radiation you have to shield yourself from constantly.
- bruce511 5y agoVery true, but it also has no useful radiation, like, um, light. But it does have water, lots of water, which could be useful in all sorts of ways. Ultimately conditions are different enough to Mars to make knowledge gleaned from one to be useless in the other.
- techdragon 5y agoThe most crucial difference being that on Mars your engineering to stop your air leaking OUT, while at the bottom of the trench you'd be engineering to stop the water getting IN. Which reminds me of this excellent Futurama joke... Fry: How many atmospheres of pressure can the ship take? Professor: Well it's a spaceship, so anywhere between 0 and 1.