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		kamaal on July 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement The hard part is getting significant amounts of material into space. Once you do that you can do anything there. Go to Mars, build O'Neil cylinders or even make your own asteroid mining factories up there.

bckr on July 9, 2022 [–]

I recommend checking out O'Neill's book The High Frontier where he lays out a plan for how to do this.

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Mars is at least 10x harder. The path to space settlement is in our own backyard.

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