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by tsimionescu 1328 days ago
Because we only care about resources to the extent that they are useful to us, and by definition we are down here and not up there.

Now, it's important to note that there are some wonderful research insights that could be gleaned by landing things on Mars, and also perhaps by using martian resources to launch things further away from Earth. None of these require 1000 rockets landing on Mars though.