Timeline for Economic Incentives of a Mars Colony
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| May 20, 2021 at 13:17 | comment | added | Slarty | @ken Fabian, I would agree with you to a point. But although difficult, I don’t think it would be impossible. Successful colonies have been emergent outcomes of enduring economic success in the past, but this does not mean there is no other way. Historically rocket boosters were not successfully reused until they were. On Mars economics should dictate a mandatory focus on self sufficiency. If limited trade plus philanthropic and government money can support a colony initially, it could become cheaper to maintain over time as more of the materials supplied from Earth became locally produced. | |
| May 20, 2021 at 12:54 | comment | added | Slarty | Perhaps your right who knows! It could be even worse, no doubt there would be money to be had in low gravity sexual antics. And a great deal of interest in the testing of vague laws that would be difficult to enforce and liable to cause political embarrassment. There could be a great deal of content that was not really in the public interest that nevertheless really interested the public. | |
| May 20, 2021 at 10:48 | comment | added | Fred | Half serious & half joking, maybe a real version of the Truman Show from Mars. | |
| May 20, 2021 at 10:03 | comment | added | Slarty | @Fred It might not, but it will be of some value. If people are living there the situation will be a bit different from Apollo. How about a documentary or film based on Mars? Content could be factual or fictional. Some sort of soap opera based on the trials and tribulations of living on Mars with human interest stories of relationships between the crew etc. Something non technical but with an unusual setting. Might be quite a lot of content that was of interest to the public. How much of that wold be desirable from a mission planning perspective is another question. | |
| May 19, 2021 at 4:51 | comment | added | Fred | Television rights might not yield much. Everyone watched Apollo 11. US television channels pulled the coverage of Apollo 12 when Alan Bean accidentally damaged the color television camera when he pointed it to the Sun very early in the transmission. No US television channels broadcast the crew transmission from Apollo 13 just prior to the cryogenic tank explosion. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 23:52 | comment | added | Ken Fabian | These all represent ways to recoup some of the costs, but are not incentives capable of supporting comprehensibly capable high tech, high cost Mars colonies and without actual and overall economic profitability I do not believe any colonies will be possible. But I think successful colonies are emergent outcomes of enduring economic success of outposts of a greater economy and fail otherwise. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 21:35 | history | answered | Slarty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |