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[bckr]

Except that Mars is a terrible location for a settlement in the next 100 years.

Bezos has the right idea, leaning into O'Neil cylinders.

[ceejayoz → bckr]

Bezos needs to learn to crawl before he runs a marathon.

[iab → ceejayoz]

Books -> 1-click shopping -> AWS —> Dyson Sphere

[bckr → iab]

You missed the most important step:

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[kamaal → bckr]

The hard part is getting significant amounts of material into space. Once you do that you can do anything there. Go to Mars, build O'Neil cylinders or even make your own asteroid mining factories up there.

[bckr → kamaal]

I recommend checking out O'Neill's book The High Frontier where he lays out a plan for how to do this.

Keyword: regolith

Mars is at least 10x harder. The path to space settlement is in our own backyard.

[mkr-hn → bckr]

The only catch is you have to build five of them.