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While he is exaggerating a bit, the problem still remains - dust can be deadly to equipment because the grains will move way faster. You also have the problem of dust particles colliding and becoming charged with nothing to dump the charge to. A human habitat has to hold positive air pressure, which means that it has to generate its oxygen or get it from the atmosphere.

If we don't have the experience of buildings stuff on earth where we can test things, we sure as shit not gonna be able to do it on Mars.