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danielweber
on Aug 8, 2012
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Elon Musk Wants to Put Man on Mars in '12 to 15 Ye...
The people who colonize Mars probably won't make a profit off of it. It will be consumption spending, like funding a yachting team. If it ever turns out to be profitable in a pure economic sense, it will take a long time for that to happen.
Yet they will still do it joyfully.
spking
on Aug 8, 2012
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The people who first colonize it will probably spend decades building the atmosphere and heating it up (see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming#Mars
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Yet they will still do it joyfully.