[Q&A+] How Realistic Are Mars Colonizations Plans?

Hopefully Musk is the first to live on Mars, sooner the better.

sound great but radiation is the killer

About Mars, I think we should send a crew to touchdown and say “we were here”, and later place an orbital station from where drones can be send down to explore and bring back up samples to be analyzed in that station. The station could be human operated or remotely operated.

Well it's going to be attempted with that much money anyone could do it in due time. Musk sells a quick fix for funding. Idiots don't care they'll jump anyways. Government already gave contracts that is pretty much a guaranteed decade of trillions in funds. It's going to be attempted

Musk has been at the tip of the spear, I mean why would someone create so many specific fields and keep practicing to perfect it, he knows what's up,

Greetings… Cool to send a few humans to Mars. Really gotta do that! And Elon will! However… Given the rapid and recent progress of robotry and AI it seems to me to be best way to ‘colonize’ Mars is to do so with machines. Starships would transport machines and/or humanoid robots by the dozens (or even hundreds) that can be used to explore Mars in a vastly more efficient manner. No life support necessary for the trip there and back. (One way missions more practicable for the most part anyway.) Machines are able to survive greater ‘landing’ stresses than humans. A few might even be able to ‘survive’… … uhmnnn … … less than ideal encounters with Martian ‘terrain’! And mission failures, for whatever reasons, can be ‘written off’ far easier if human lives weren’t involved. Humanoid robots and, more likely, machines of all shapes and capabilities, can be efficiently transported to Mars, each specifically designed for tasks essential to exploration and the eventual creation of an industrial infrastructure necessary to export valuable resources to Earth. Establishing human habitats may be among those tasks as well. But … … other than some sort of scientific endeavor that can’t be accomplished by machines … Why bother? (At least for some while.) Seems to me that vast riches eventually realized by ‘remote’ harvesting of resources from planets, moons, asteroids and comets can give rise to the eventual establishment of a permanent human presence ‘off earth’. Elon Musk, with his seemingly inexhaustible resources as well as his various enterprises concerned with launching things, robotics and AI is, perhaps, the person best positioned to begin something of the nature of what I propose in relatively short order. Stay Well .,,,

Totally not a scam! Just like Neuralink, Boring Co, and Hyperloop! (And the Tesla Roadster, and "Full Self Driving", and… and…)

I would get too clausrophic working/living in a tiny habitat and having to wear a spacesuit just to go outside.

Can a Martian city evolve out of a research base? The only way to keep costs down for a research base is partial self-sufficiency. And partial self sufficiency leads to trade, bars, barbers, etc.