On: Why Not Mars

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I can relate to this argument in principle. Building base here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_Inaccessibility_resear... for example would be a great exercise for building base on Mars.

We could learn great things, and maybe reuse technology for going on Mars.

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The Russian Vostok base base or the european Concordia base are already in quite similar environment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia_Station

And IIRC Concordia already tested some water recycling technology from ESA for example.