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I propose 3 objectives for a human settlement on Mars:
• To be a backup for humanity if all the humans on Earth die.
• To provide companionship to the robot inhabitants of Mars.
• To fix robots on Mars if they get stuck and cannot fix themselves.
What other objective would you like to include?-
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That’s a cool idea. I hadn’t heard of that prospect. I just Googled “asteroid composition” and apperently some astorids have quadrillions of dollers worth of materials. https://bit.ly/32L7HCe . I guess Martians would use some of the material for space platforms, some on Mars and some would be sold on Earth.
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I read about in Robert Zubrin’s book “Case for Mars”.
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Oh I misread that infographic. It’s quintillions of dollers rathder then quadrillions of dollers. I guess a quintillion is a thousand quadrillion. Anyway it’s a mind boggoling quantity.
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Patrick is a software developer with a degree in Computer Science from the University of California Riverside. He has over 8 years of paid work experience. He is a single father. His daughter was born in 2017. He tries to meet 2.33 new people everyday. He is an aspiring artist with an emphasis in street art.
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In light of Elon’s comments about steel likely being the most important material for general colony use I’d like to pose the question:
If you had to build a city on Mars from scratch with local materials which of the following would get the majority of your attention: steel, bricks or concrete?
It’s a close call in my mind. My present…Read More
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I wouldn’t be original but:
* To support mining in the Main Asteroid Belt.
Mars is much closer than Earth and with significantly lower gravity thus it would be much easier for mining ships to travel between Mars and the Belt and also lift necessary provisions off the surface than between Earth and the Belt.