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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Hell, I was a member of the Planetary Society when most of the people here were still in diapers. I have yet to see why Mars would be a better candidate for MINING (which is what I thought we'd started off talking about) than a Near-Earth Asteroid (which, incidentally, you don't have to go beyond Mars to find... there's estimated to be something like 10,000 that approach or cross the Earth's orbit.) One would think that several aspects of mining would be easier in microG's. Certainly all the activity would help prevent deterioration like it does on the Station -- if we used humans at all. There'd be a much shorter trip down from Earth Orbit ('Roid capture being feasable with mass-driver technology), and no Martian gravity well to lift resources out of. Now, if we're talking human colonization, then Mars is probably the place to be, followed by Titan and maybe Europa or a terraformed Venus (though I expect that one would be darned hard.) Still, if you're going to bring in the kind of water a city on Mars would need, (depending on how much water there actually turns out to be there, and how easy it is to reclaimZ), you'll still need 'Roid-grabbing technology, for water ice. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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