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It makes the same amount of sense as a colony on Mars, largely for the same reasons. Sure you can put people underground, but that’s probably not much fun. Wh
by mybestday 10mo ago
It makes the same amount of sense as a colony on Mars, largely for the same reasons.
Sure you can put people underground, but that’s probably not much fun. Why not just do that on earth?
- ndsipa_pomu 10mo agoIs the answer slavery? Once you've been taken to Mars and given your underground living quarters, you're going to be stuck there and not have any option but to carry on working or be thrown out to die on the surface.
- exomonk 10mo agoIt's basically nuclear preparedness research. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_system) https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...
- wombatpm 10mo agoThey should be doing that somewhere inhospitable to prove out the technology and concept. Set up in the arctic and work only with loads of materials that correspond to a starship load. But then again no one is really serious about Mars.