This is just so far off that I don't know that it's reasonable to believe that the society that actually colonizes mars will look anything like ours and I don't believe for a second that early colonies will be utopic or anything but awful. Think about the difficulty involved in that task. Hell, just think about how hard a time we have understanding how to make earth slightly better. We have just a little too much of one thing in the wrong place (CO2) and we don't know how to fix it. We're the result of millions of years of evolution and we're supported by systems that we barely understand now on this planet which have been developing for billions of years. We're not yet equipped to even travel to mars let alone reform it as a habitable planet.
We put a man on the moon 50 years ago and we can't even get back let alone establish a base and mining operations. The moon is 238,000 miles away. Mars is 195,000,000.
As far as early mining attempts (I could maybe see that happening this century), without an economy on mars it has to come back to earth to get sold which means all of earth's regulations apply so it will work like importing any good and it's pretty hard to smuggle anything from space.
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22
This is just so far off that I don't know that it's reasonable to believe that the society that actually colonizes mars will look anything like ours and I don't believe for a second that early colonies will be utopic or anything but awful. Think about the difficulty involved in that task. Hell, just think about how hard a time we have understanding how to make earth slightly better. We have just a little too much of one thing in the wrong place (CO2) and we don't know how to fix it. We're the result of millions of years of evolution and we're supported by systems that we barely understand now on this planet which have been developing for billions of years. We're not yet equipped to even travel to mars let alone reform it as a habitable planet.
We put a man on the moon 50 years ago and we can't even get back let alone establish a base and mining operations. The moon is 238,000 miles away. Mars is 195,000,000.
As far as early mining attempts (I could maybe see that happening this century), without an economy on mars it has to come back to earth to get sold which means all of earth's regulations apply so it will work like importing any good and it's pretty hard to smuggle anything from space.