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What is the expected value of a private party reaching Mars? What are they going to get from it?
by chc 14y ago
What is the expected value of a private party reaching Mars? What are they going to get from it?
- stcredzero 14y agoThe first individuals to reach North America didn't become ultra-rich. But North America did eventually produce unprecedented new wealth. Zubrin has argued that the colonization of Mars is analogous to North America, and will produce unprecendented wealth. http://www.nss.org/settlement/mars/zubrin-promise.html http://www.nss.org/settlement/mars/zubrin-promise.html
- mohawk 14y agoHate to be a pedant, but the first people who reached North America were massacred by the ones who followed.
- stcredzero 14y ago> Hate to be a pedant, but the first people who reached North America were massacred by the ones who followed. No, good point. That one doesn't count as pedantry on your part, but as a d'oh on my part!
- CamperBob2 14y agoDepends on whose logos are on the rocket.
- kunle 14y agoHard to say. I'm completely speculating but I'm imagining that between the natural resources present there and the possibility of colonizing the planet, there's economic potential. That being said, very difficult to calculate.