In my opinion before we even get to that point Elon and others will first have to figure out how to include only people with psychological and physical profiles

In my opinion before we even get to that point Elon and others will first have to figure out how to include only people with psychological and physical profiles conducive to such a lifestyle. Even one unstable person could cause entire pods or groups of pods to be destroyed and mass evacuations, assuming evacuation is feasible. Limited versions of these experiments have occurred on earth with sub-optimal results. There are also some long term low-gravity induced health issues that will have to be addressed and that is work-in-progress. Here [1] was some recent discussion on this as well. I suspect that initially there will be teams of robots belonging to different governments and maybe a small handful of astronaut engineers managing them locally with bigger teams back here on earth. I envision robot-vs-robot sabotage leading to problems here on earth. The same may occur with asteroid mining despite there being vast numbers of asteroids to mine. At some point there will probably be more space-soldiers and defensive equipment than engineers. The folks that wrote the fictional series Star Trek had the optimistic view that humans would clash in a major world war in 2024 and then all get along swimmingly afterwards. I do not share their optimism but then my view would have entirely changed the Star Trek series into a different kind of show. To really answer your question I think we would have to fully understand how the land in Antarctica is managed and how we ended up with people agreeing to share pieces of land. [2] [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31612545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31612545 [2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbKNlFcg02c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbKNlFcg02c [video]