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Originally Posted by RedDevil
The only practical way to make a permanent settlement on Mars or the Moon is by going under the surface.
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We no longer have the societal surplus to waste on pursuing off world colonies. All of these efforts would be much better spent on the complete transformation of energy and infrustructure that is needed in order to face the declining ER/EI of oil in the next 30 years. We will additionally need social change. The diminishing societal surplus will very soon no longer support a situation where 1% of the population can run off with 80% of the wealth every year. Rebuildables cannot replace even the necessary 1/3 after full electrificatin of the 400TWh per day we are blowing through every day. There will be a Great Simplification. And those Billions of people that already do not have enough cannot afford to get even less. Maybe 30 years left. Maybe 10.