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by m4rtink 2350 days ago
Hey, more mass for habitats and other stuff once we get there. :-) Planets are mass inefficient anyway. ;-)
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Yeah, people keep focusing on Mars as a habitat, but it makes so much more sense to build in orbit around earth. So much closer when you need something and your internet latency would be great. But Bezos has the right idea, keep people on the planet and put the things you don't want on the planet in space rather, like industry. Even that makes little sense until you're sourcing the resources from outside earth.