The Mars Colony

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Originally Posted by razark

I was referring to thousands of years of human civilization ravaging the useful, easily obtainable bits of metals and such. Mars, having been a wet planet, is speculated as likely to form many of the same ores as Earth. And they haven't been picked up and dug out and stuck in someone's pockets yet.

Deuterium, I believe, is also supposed to more plentiful on Mars. Useful for fusion, if we ever get that working.

Deuterium and He3 are even more plentiful on Saturn and Uranus (insert joke here). Mars is just a way station to that rich region.

Originally Posted by August

But exotic is valuable mainly because it is rare. What does the infusion of another complete planets worth of exotic elements do to their value?

Makes expensive high tech things get cheap. There is a huge amount of gold and titanium in the space shuttle. What would happen if it became as cheap and plentiful as silicon? Mass production of spacecraft and space stations.

Value can mean many things, not just that something has monetary value.