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Chris Vancil — (archived)

I suggested long ago water extraction and transport to EML 1 was an economical possibility for Mars. If you assume a need for fuel there water is the most stable and easily processed product easily extracted from the Martian atmosphere.

1) Construction firm building solar power towers at the South Lunar pole (impossible on Mars)

A) Cannot this be done cheaper in orbit? And without laser beams to transmit power?

2) Servicing operations for Lunar assets (robots, scopes, whatever)

A) Weakest form of boot strapping. A claim Mars can easily make as well. Servicing operations for Mars assets (robots, scopes, whatever) Nobody in their right mind is putting an optical scope on the Moon and radio telescope will be reduced to pointless if you have any active regolith moving and a human colony there with comms.

3) Anhydrous glass for optics and construction (impossible on Mars)

A) What value does this glass have over Anhydrous and Hydrous glass made here on Earth? You have evidence making anhydrous glass is impossible on Mars?

4) Vacuum-pure raw material production for the nano-tech industry (impossible on Mars)

A) Mars' as a near prefect vacuum (as good as any vacuum chamber on Earth). You have evidence material processing of this kind is impossible on Mars?

5) Transport logistics and freight forwarding services
) Another boot starpping bogus argument. From where to where?

6) Structural elements for GEO SPSes

See 1) answer.

7) Solar cells for GEO SPSes

See 1) answer.

8) Archive of humanity (if there's not one already up there)

Archiving what? How about a deep hole here? Much cheaper!

9) Unique agricultural products grown in regolith like spices, lunajuana (c) and moonrooms (c)

Yes, and new lunar clone children... You need nitrogen and water to grow plants which Mars has in abundance compared to the Moon.

10) Biohazard research

And let us not forget nuclear detention testing...

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