There are no cities in Antarctica, but Elon "reddit" Musk says there will be millions of people on mars in decades.
Is he insane or a con artist?
Most southerly city: en.wikipedia.org
Millions of reddit neckbeards could die on Mars by the 2060s: news.nationalgeographic.com
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>Millions of reddit neckbeards could die on Mars by the 2060s
Who gives a fuck, I just wanna see shit happen, you feel me?
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Ah yes, the average rebbitior's defense tactic, call others redditors so you won't be found out. How quaint.
Large scale development of Antarctica is prohibited by treaty, someone fucking around with it too much would cause WW3
Also for three months a year Antarctica receives zero sunlight so it relies on massive inputs of fossil fuels, in that respect it's worse than Mars.
>in that respect it's worse than Mars.
But only in that respect.
Think about:
>Basically no atmosphere
>Toxic shit everywhere
>High levels of radiation
>Low gravity
>No oxygen
>Pretty fucking cold
>Very, very far away
>Completely sterile
Nah, Antarctica is pretty much a fertile paradise compared to Mars. People who advertise "colonizing" mars simply have no clue what they are talking about, and so is Musk. He's just trying his best to be exactly the insane visionary that investors are paying him to be.
>basically no atmosphere
>pretty fucking cold
These two together are a benefit - a thick, cold atmosphere sucks the heat out of everything more quickly
>very far away
America was three months of travel away when it was founded, Australia even more than that. Again, that's the point - earth kind of blows when you can reach any location on the surface within 24 hours
>toxic shit everywhere
I'm legitimately curious what you're referring to with this one?
>America was three months of travel away when it was founded, Australia even more than that. Again, that's the point - earth kind of blows when you can reach any location on the surface within 24 hours
I'm not sure what you want to say, really. Mars is months away, so in case anything goes wrong, chances are every one is dead by the time help arrives.
>I'm legitimately curious what you're referring to with this one?
Perchlorates in the martian soil. Highly toxic.
>These two together are a benefit - a thick, cold atmosphere sucks the heat out of everything more quickly
Granted, stuff on mars will be neatly isolated.
Still, mars is absolutely hostile to life, much more than any place on earth's surface really.
>America
>Australia
When Europeans Reached America they found endless plains, Lush Tropical Islands and sprawling deciduous forests, it already posessed everything needed to sustain enormous amounts of life aswell as an abundance of rare resources (gold, silver, tropical woods, furs)
Australia was a Penal colony, it was also almost unpopulated and its coasts were covered in grasslands, the oceans around it were also filled with life.
Mars is in no way comparable to this.
>it's worse than Mars.
Lol. You could just send a tanker in with the materials and build a nuclear reactor. It would be millions of times cheaper than doing the same thing on Mars.
It's time for you to go back 2 reddit.