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Serious question. Investing in a Mars expedition sounds like a terrible investment. How is SpaceX planning on making a profit?
>Expensive as fuck
>Probably won't work
>Probably will die
I'm out. Who the fuck is investing in this?
>But, anon, thousands of people will be living on a Mars colony by 2050!
No they fucking won't. Antarctica is much warmer, and much, much wetter - a lush tropical paradise - compared to Mars. Look at all the people lining up to live in Antarctica.
Living in a bubble city of death on Mars doesn't actually start looking appealing until we're out of room in Antarctica.
Noboby is going to become a trillionair mining space, becuase even if Mars were made of Gold, it's still way fucking harder getting any sizeable amount back home, than simply mining what we have here.
>Ferdinand and Isabella found a world hosptitable and full of premined Gold, Silver, Emeralds, etc.
>Musk will find a cold rock of death.
Where is the profit motive?
How the fuck profit from Mars?