Timeline for Resources to justify long-distance space mining missions
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| Feb 17, 2019 at 20:32 | comment | added | Mikey | Relevant: space.com/21554-mars-toxic-perchlorate-chemicals.html | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 6:58 | comment | added | Ghanima | As will teraforming itself take generations. That's the point. | |
| Apr 29, 2015 at 3:17 | comment | added | Mikey | Soil will take generations to create artificially. If you could import it quickly and easily, that would be a major boon to agriculture and forestry. Martian regolith, for example, can sit in a lab as long as you like, with as much fertilizer as you like, with as many bugs and worms you want to transport; it will still be dust. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 21:29 | comment | added | Ghanima | I don't think that soil is the most overlooked item. You simply would not bother (maybe as a rarity but not as necessity). Go for hydroponics or make do with the stuff you find over there. Teraforming will have to develop plants fitting to the planet anyways and soil will be "naturally" formed in the process along. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 20:16 | history | answered | Mikey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |