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exboyfil

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3. Colonization is impractical

Reply to Control-Z (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 09:51 PM

Dec 2018

We need to build O'Neill cylinders as soon as practical and ensure they are are Arc worthy. Able to continue humanity in case of an impactor or nuclear war. The moon and Mars are mostly gravity wells. We can get raw materials from asteroids easier. Big reason to examine Mars is the continued search for extraterrestrial life and our robot probes can do that as well.

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Apollo Astronaut: It Would Be "Stupid" to Send People to Mars [View all] Duppers Dec 2018 OP

I tend to think the same about Mars and the moon, Control-Z Dec 2018 #1

Colonization is impractical exboyfil Dec 2018 #3

Decent ideas you have there, exboyfil PJMcK Dec 2018 #5

Money and mining. Mining and money. Drill baby drill and all that stuff. nt GemDigger Dec 2018 #2

Asteroids exboyfil Dec 2018 #4

Not practical as even Mars has a gravity well and anything mined would have to cstanleytech Dec 2018 #7

I agree as the priority should be on investigating methods of making faster trips to cstanleytech Dec 2018 #6

I agree but we are a species hell bent on exploring. Javaman Dec 2018 #8

The same was true then. Igel Dec 2018 #9