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My question exactly Cannoli Send a noteboard - 02/04/2019 10:29:08 PM

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There is unlikely to be anything of economics value on Mars either and what is there would be easier to retrieve with automated systems. On he moon would could learn how to build and sustain a permanent base on an alien planet. Get wrong on the moon and you are three days from home, get it wrong on Mars and your dead.

We're going to do an expensive, difficult and dangerous thing, whose primary practical value is mastering the skills to do a MORE expensive, MORE difficult and MORE dangerous thing, of no greater practical value.

Cannoli
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