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I'm not sure you're actually hearing what the author is saying. Colonizing the Outback is not even remotely close to colonizing Mars in its inhospitability, and expense. There is literally no analog you can compare with on Earth. The cost alone would drain the resources we would need to continue maintaining the level of life we all have on Earth to a shocking degree. It's simply not a plausible scenario given our current technology and civilization, nor our conceivable technology in the foreseeable future. It is the very definition of boondoggle.
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Low Information Voter 1y ago

We are currently draining Earth's resources into a confrontation between nuclear powers.

The Martian landscape is far less inhospitable to human life than a politician's soul.

I'm well aware of the challenges, but the author of that essay seems to be unaware of most of the last sixty years worth of developments.

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SLCW 1y ago

Specifically, what technology do you believe we've developed in the past 60 years that would negate the reality of the challenges to sustaining human life on Mars on permanent basis? Remember, we're not talking about sending one or two people for an exploratory, 2-day mission. We're talking about a group of humans are expected survive and thrive on Mars permanently.