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>>8027079
>It's not not (only) about it being hard, but primarily about it being pointless.
Why is it pointless? There's huge amounts that we can learn, quite aside from the long-term benefits that space development has brought us.
Exploration is almost always rewarding.

>If you think living on Mars would be so cool and whatnot, why not try living in the Sahara first?
Plenty of people DO live in remote environments in order to study them. There are many research outposts in the Antarctic, an a lot of marine biology is done from people living on ships.