Moving to Mars

[andrewducker]

I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.

Says Bruce Sterling, who is right in every way.

Comments

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

:-) But seriously, I think that there is some point point to establishing the principle of living on another planet.

Mr Sterling is totally correct as to the practicalities, however.