I just wrote a comment that includes the following sentence:
I think the J. P. Morgan of Mars will get rich shipping water from the ice near the poles to the people near the equator where it's sunny.
But I was being whimsical and not thinking it through.
While there is oxygen everywhere in...
I'm very uncomfortable with this question; I can't see it attract any factual answers since the base scenario is still science fiction
some of the answers have some good ideas, but this is more worldbuilding quality than anything else
This question have a serious chicken and egg problem (no need to have a massive water supply without a massive base; no mean to supply a massive base without a massive water supply; no mean to create a massive base without water, ...)
@Antzi you should certainly challenge the answers that you are uncomfortable with.
While there may not be 10,000 or 100,000 people on Mars any time soon, it certainly looks like there is some reasonable expectation that there will be.
So I do not think it is chicken-and-egg.
If you look at the last two or three thousand years of human history...
There has always, always been a push to extend technology to travel farther.
And every single time, there has been a push to move people there and establish colonies.
Antarctica has the least, so that's the only counter-example...
There is a reasonable expectation that this is going to happen.
So I've asked a physics/engineering question and there is in fact one well-reasoned answer there.
Maybe one out of every 100 questions here will push creative thinking a little bit, and probably the same ratio applies to my questions as a subset as well.
So I don't think this question is going to kill Space SE.
We have quite an inventory of questions about terraforming Mars, and some about Venus as well. I think transporting water from point a to point b on Mars is a lot less "Worldbuilding quality" than these questions.
It seems that while it is a bit harder to get people to watch the BFR cost video compared to some of my other ones I've done, they watch more of it then the other videos.
I just wrote a comment that includes the following sentence:
I think the J. P. Morgan of Mars will get rich shipping water from the ice near the poles to the people near the equator where it's sunny.
But I was being whimsical and not thinking it through.
While there is oxygen everywhere in...
