It's probably orders of magnitude easier than 1000x to colonize Antarctica, tbh. You can't grow anything in Anarctic ice, or in the Martian regolith, so the only viable option is hydroponics. You could easily do hydroponic agriculture in Antarctica, you're surrounded by water, Mars, not so much.
you're closer to the sun on antarctica and don't have routine dust storms that cover the entire surface of the planet regularly, so solar panels will actually generate more goddamn power, yes, despite being at the poles
huh, that's pretty cool, thanks for giving me the stats i was too lazy to look up; i do know there's a tension here, the equator is the best place to set up shop, but the underground icewater that the colonists will need will most likely be at the poles, right?
well we currently don't have the technology to make sure that humans that step out of the earth's magnetosphere don't get irradiated to a crisp, so none of this will every happen within any near-future timeframe
Colonizing Antarctica is 1000x easier than colonizing Mars.
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It's probably orders of magnitude easier than 1000x to colonize Antarctica, tbh. You can't grow anything in Anarctic ice, or in the Martian regolith, so the only viable option is hydroponics. You could easily do hydroponic agriculture in Antarctica, you're surrounded by water, Mars, not so much.
you're closer to the sun on antarctica and don't have routine dust storms that cover the entire surface of the planet regularly, so solar panels will actually generate more goddamn power, yes, despite being at the poles
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huh, that's pretty cool, thanks for giving me the stats i was too lazy to look up; i do know there's a tension here, the equator is the best place to set up shop, but the underground icewater that the colonists will need will most likely be at the poles, right?
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QUAID! START THE REACTOR!
Being able to breathe the air also seems important, so does not being anywhere from six months to two years away from help.
well we currently don't have the technology to make sure that humans that step out of the earth's magnetosphere don't get irradiated to a crisp, so none of this will every happen within any near-future timeframe
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This would just take time. But the time frame for getting a living Martian soil is centuries if not millennia.
colonizing the Mariana Trench is 1000x easier than colonizing Mars
The Mariana Trench is 10000000x closer to existing society so it's 10000000x easier to colonize.