I can see Musks Mars mission now, they’ll take at least a dozen Cyber trucks to get around on the surface, these will break down within a month and no one will have taken tools, because tesla service comes to you, they’ll also take 8 days to charge using solar. Couple of Boring company tunneling machines to build the underground city but no way to get them from the space ship to the lander and then to the ground, the hydroponics lab will only be geared up to grow weed and they’ll forget to take water, or any way of extracting it. So they’ll all be drinking prime by the bucket load and the toilets will require a subscription.
It’s the moon they should be concentrating on. It’s closer, we’re perfectly capable of getting there, there are already tunnels on the moon that can be accessed through holes from the surface that could be easily closed off with airlocks, there’s water on the moon, there’s the ability to create a breathable atmosphere inside the tunnels, it’s relatively easy to build an electromagnetic launcher to send back valuable mined materials, the mining of which will continue to increase the size of the colony thus allowing more valuable materials to be sent back to Earth reducing the need to mine the planet for said materials.
There’s almost limitless amounts of solar energy on the moons surface, and solar panels could be manufactured using lunar materials, none of which will add to the loss of valuable materials on the home planet.
Easy peasy. Not really, but compared to doing anything on Mars, it’s a piece of piss.
Especially if space elevators were built, which would mean shuttles could maintain contact with the lunar colony without needing big, expensive launch vehicles from the surface. We apparently have the technology now to build one.
