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by edblarney 3504 days ago
1000 years or a million - it's irrelevant I think.

After 1000 years of evolution and progress, we may have very different ideas about everything we understand.

We might possibly abandon Mars 'terraforming' for going to 'ready to go' planets that we can access further away.

Humans are not very good at planning at that horizon.

The only group that does that is the Catholic Church.

The big Cathedral in Cologne, Germany took 700 years to build. Imagine being born, raised, trained, and then working on a project that started 300 years ago and won't be done until 300 years after you are dead? Imagine being the guy in charge of that looking for investment 'for the next phase'? There are always more pressing costs.

It takes a commitment beyond that which our 'GDP' numbers capture.

Admittedly, 'space colonization' shares some of that impetus.

But the reality of it is, most people put their $ into Kardashian news.

Until then - my crazy but most actually realistic bet is that Wynne Hotels and Vegas-like entities, maybe Sandals resorts are the first people to make Mars accessible after NASA makes a few landings.

There will be a Casino on mars before most other things.

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> The big Cathedral in Cologne, Germany took 700 years to build.

Yes, but: I doubt that they planned it that way.

Admittedly, you're right, it was not fully planned in that manner, but it would have taken a consistent vision over 100's of years, much like the colonization of another planet.