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7. Not practical as even Mars has a gravity well and anything mined would have to

Thu Dec 27, 2018, 12:34 AM

Dec 2018

be transported off the surface first and then all the way to earth.

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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

Asteroids exboyfil Dec 2018 #4

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

The same was true then. Igel Dec 2018 #9