/sci/ - Science & Math

why would we terraform mars? with the money you've suggested, a company could put a mining station on phobos or demos and turn 2 trillion dollars into 100 trillion dollars in, say, 100 years.

with those rare resources, and the technology driven by such a (mind you, private) venture. would make the need to live on a planet (AKA farming and oxygen supplies) non critical for the human species.

the goal of humans right now should be to figure out how to harvest near earth asteroids, sell that shit, and continue to develop such technology, mark my words that is the most progress we will see in you or my lifetime.