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>>15957487
>plans are for Mars
its a meme to hype up soiboys soigapes. Including reddit space mand Musk. Its as cold as antarctica and dry as sahara. With 1% of earfs atmo and no magnetosphere to protect the planet from spicy particles coming in from space.

At best you will see research and prospecting outposts for decades doing geological surveys. Then first ore extractions built around discovered deposits. Rest of industry slowly following with factories and associated support structures to refine the shit into anything usable. Lunar surface (moon) has more potential for space industrialization then Mars will have for a long time.

Real value of the superheavy lifters is getting mass tonnage cheap to LEO. There you can build anything you want to go anywhere you want in whatever configuration you want. Like lets say nuclear propolsion based around nuclear detonations