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Unless explorers will be given property of sizable portions of martian land and a number (more than 1!) of back and forth Mars-Earth tickets, this will definite
by nnq 14y ago
Unless explorers will be given property of sizable portions of martian land and a number (more than 1!) of back and forth Mars-Earth tickets, this will definitely not attract the kind of valuable and resourceful people that would really be needed to create a self sustaining colony! And you'd also need something like a "diversity Mars Visa lottery" open to anyone so that a colony will not only be formed of "boring, super-fit and super-trained" career space colonists.
...but for all this to work, you'd need good, reliable and "cheap" space propulsion systems, not the current toys. This is where all the work and hype should be, not over the colonization plans and how to grow veggies over there: propulsion, propulsion, propulsion, everything else on 4th, 5th, 6th etc. place.
- danielweber 14y agoThe goal of a colonization effort is never to make the new place more appealing than the old place for the majority of people, or even the median, or even a sizable minority. You want Mars to appeal enough that you can get dozens or hundreds or people who have both the means and will to do it.