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a world without niggers of course

You can use it as a marketing point, to build an audience and sell shit. You can use it to distract brain-dead proles. You can use it to secure a possible piece of power. There is the possibility of extracting resources although that's way off and would only be relevant to the "colony" itself, no trading. Maybe they're just retarded.

Elon read Dune and decided he wanted to become the spacing guild

>what goods or services could be traded back to Earth?
Nothing really. It's proximity to the asteroid belt would make it easy to extract resources

The best thing about Mars is huge tracts of cheap land and water to be mined everywhere. No governments, laws, regulations etc.

yeah land and water are so scarce here on earth

Ever read the duplicated man by Blish? On Venus, even so much as stepping on a plant or piece of grass was immediately punishable by death. Wonder if we'll have similar rules when a big settlement gets put in place. Plants will be crucial

to be mined everywhere. No governments, laws, regulations etc.

>Elon read Dune and decided he wanted to become the spacing guild
imOKwiththis.aiff

yeah martians can just murder each others since there won't be any laws lmao

I'm gonna watch Capricorn One tonight lads

Most small plants actually benefit from being trampled once they've grown to their full size, especially grasses. This puts their older leaves in contact with the soil, which speeds up the breakdown of that material and recycles nutrients into the soil to be taken back up by the plants. Any society with an extreme dependence on plant life would be shredding leaves and stomping on shrubs every few months.

Well I can see entertainment being pretty big. People on mars would obviously miss earth, but I'm sure people on earth would be rather interested in life on mars. Virtual tours, reality TV shows, etc would probably be a possible economic investment.

This very much please

This and I'd love to buy martian goods. Liquor or jews.

Meant jewels.

Think about something like this: make Mars a big Area 51 to experiment all type of weapon, invention, plant and don't worry about consequence,regulation...

>SpaceX was created to make humanity a multi-planetary species


No ... literally no, why are you repeating their PR phrases?

They can barely make it into LEO, they have the lowest reliability of the market they have no high isp upper stage they have no stage with storable fuel they can not break into a mars orbit.

They barely make money.

They are not able to build something like the FH and you really believe this dishonest fraud that they are going to build something like the BFR?

God you are naive.

Every time something bad happens for Tesla or SpaceX Elon comes up with another GROUNDBREAKING greenwashing bullshit claim and r/futurology tards like you eat it like free ham.

If we look at their history and current situation it is pretty safe to say that they are never going to land a human on mars or reach it with a significant payload, they are not even allowed / able to deliver a human to the ISS.

>cut launch costs by 66%
>accomplished nothing

so much idiocy in one comment

>they have the lowest reliability of the market

Their reliability is average. 1-2 failed launches out of dozens is the norm in the industry. It is hard to judge this accurately anyway because most rockets have only a handful of failures. Not enough statistical data for any meaningful conclusions.

>they have no high isp upper stage

High isp upper stage is a meme based on an obsolete notion that you have to get to your destination in a single launch and that hydrogen upper stage is the best. SpaceX is aiming for sensible fuel rich architecture, distributed launch and orbital refueling in medium Earth orbit. Methane is much better for such architecture due to higher density and easier handling.

>They are not able to build something like the FH and you really believe this dishonest fraud that they are going to build something like the BFR?

FH is more complex than you think. Strapping stages together is not a trivial task.

Whether they can build BFR will depend on whether they can raise enough money to do it, most likely public money. But there is no known technical showstopper.

Jews as well

Ask yourself a simple question: is the economic value of the USA primarily measured in how much value it can send back to Europe?

Mars is valuable as a place to live:
1) that's far from all Earth nations and difficult and expensive to get to,
2) that's unforgiving of poverty and incompetence,
3) that will be initally unattractive to people primarily interested in luxurious living conditions or power over others,
4) where its inhabitants will be forced by necessity to live in radiation-shielded sealed habitats,
5) where there is no biosphere or liquid groundwater and therefore environmental concerns are easily satisfied, and
6) where launch into space is simple and inexpensive, requiring only single-stage rockets less capable than the upper stages of our orbital rockets on Earth.

Oh, I left out:
7) with untouched natural resources to mine.

>waitbutwhy.com
>clickbait
>popsci

>what economic reason...?

Musk even said it wasn't about money but about getting some of the eggs out of the basket. Yet, he doesn't seem to know about...

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