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21 days agoAll the more reason why we need to conquer the oceans with underwater bases waaaaaay before we try to conquer Mars. If we can’t build an underwater base, we are completely and utterly hopeless towards the goal of living on any sort of space-bound entity.
On Mars, you have no help. Nothing for at least a year. It’s hard to even send a message. Going to the moon ain’t shit compared to Mars. If you need supplies or repairs or people or even communication, the vastness of space is far far more apparent.
On Earth within an underwater base, if you need help from the surface, they are already up there. Almost instant speeds to get a message, and a few hours to a day to get at least something down to the base. Worse-case, you can gear up and swim up to the attached platform, and strategize there.
Without the experience of building and sustaining an underwater base, we die on Mars, if we can even get there in the first place.