3 ms·
Would it be easier building a huge habitable space station near Mars than on the surface of Mars itself. Reason why near Mars if because we want redundancy for
by sidcool 5y ago
Would it be easier building a huge habitable space station near Mars than on the surface of Mars itself.
Reason why near Mars if because we want redundancy for life. So at a safe distance from Earth.
- rklaehn 5y agoOnce mars settlement gets going, the moons of mars Phobos and Deimos also make for attractive targets. It might be that once starship works, we do all kinds of things, and it turns out that asteroids work better than planetary surfaces. So the belt becomes the focus of economic activity, and the mars colony is just a novelty kept alive by the Musk Foundation.