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250 years ago, you could make this exact argument about the British colonization of Australia, and it would be entirely correct. The early colony was a pure fis
by tristanj 7mo ago
250 years ago, you could make this exact argument about the British colonization of Australia, and it would be entirely correct. The early colony was a pure fiscal drain on Britain with almost no return.
Yet today it's the 13th largest economy on earth.
Think on a longer time scale.
- HerbManic 7mo agoWe also have a lot of easily accessible resources via agriculture and mining, things Mars does not have. And even if it did having mining potential, the cost of returning the goods to Earth would be wild.
- heavyset_go 7mo agoThe cost of agriculture and mining at all, without combustion, would be astronomical
- msuniverse2026 7mo ago>Think on a longer time scale. On a longer timescale would it only be spaceX on Mars?
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- walthamstow 7mo agoAustralia was built by forced and indentured labour.
- mckn1ght 7mo agoI guess the unspoken part of a Mars colony is that it would be penal.
- elil17 7mo agoThe difference is that Australia is on earth... where we all live. In fact, Australia already had people living on it.
- dgellow 7mo agoSo you’re investing with a 250y time horizon? Do you even expect profits from your investment? Or is it purely ideological?