UAE plans first city on Mars

gulfnews.com/news/uae/general/uae-to-build-first-city-on-mars-by-2117-1.1978549

Insanely rich people used to finding ways to survive in a harsh, dry climate and building huge climate controlled structures... it's just wild enough, it might work!

I live in the UAE, and it's pretty good. it is the most peaceful country there is. You can literally leave your door open and not worry about a theif coming in, although it is advisable not to do so.

>I live in the UAE

Could you please get in touch with your countrymen and advise them to accelerate their schedule? I want to go to the Mars Shopping Festival and ski indoors on the slopes of Olympus, but I doubt I will make it to 2117.

>Allahu Mars-bar
It's nice they're spending money on researching new technologies which will (probably) benefit the entire humanity as a whole but I would prefer it if they planned to do it within the next 50-60 years.

>it is the most peaceful country there is.

What
Wait till the barrels stop rolling

>>countrymen
>He doesn't know that 80% of the people living in the UAE are foreigners

What complete bullshit. UAE doesn't have the money for this. Sure they can waste a few billion here and there on some vanity projects designed by foreign architects and engineering companies but Mars is another thing entirely. In 2117 it's far more likely that UAE won't exist, oil will run out and somewhere else will become the luxury destination. UAE only gained an interest in space after the ISRO milked the publicity of their 70 million dollar pointless Mars orbiter so they thought they would do the same, only using foreign infrastructure.

In other news the UAE are making a state corperation called the United Arab Corperation

Can't wait to see what the hell they get up to up there.

Just another third-world hell-hole that will soon run out of money and have "nothing" but the poverty they had before oil to show for all that oil money.

Not if the oil economy collapses first