> But who cares about that? Everyone who actually has to make a mars colony work. Because, yes "yearning for the vast and endless sea" is certainly more poeti

> But who cares about that? Everyone who actually has to make a mars colony work. Because, yes "yearning for the vast and endless sea" is certainly more poetic than figuring out how to make beams from tree trunks. But without lots of people who think alot about trees and carpentry figuring out how to reliably produce good quality beams and techniques that allow for them to be fitted together into a hull that won't break apart when hit by the first few waves, no amount of yearning will result in a working Carrack. > human being landing on Mars would probably be the single most watched event in human history. Probably. And now imagine the reaction of all those people watching, when the landing vehicle crashed and exploded, or the Astronauts died horribly from thirst or starvation. That's why there are people who care about building a sustainable colony in the arctic dry valleys.