A Comment About

The Great PJ Media Space Debate

May 22, 2011 - 12:00 am - by Robert Zubrin and Rand Simberg
IcePilot
2011-05-22 19:49:21

Mars is a dead end.

What product will be produced on Mars and sold for a profit on Earth?

The energy is free and continuous, the small gravity-well resources abundant, and gravity itself is no longer present, to limit economies of scale.

Space is the place. Why waste all that money and energy getting out of Earth’s gravity well, just to jump down another, like Mars?