Mars advocates think about space the wrong way. What is on mars? A puddle of water ice, some c02 and rocks. In order to live on mars one must spend immense amounts of delta V on solar panels and radiation shielding just to establish basic production.
What is on Titan? Drinkable water, burnable fuel, retrievable oxygen, radiation shielding. Delta V must only be spent on initial energy structure which is much less mass needed to be sent per person per joule than Mars will need long term. No need to spend decades figuring out the gravity problem you can spin the centrifuge with all the gas you have, no need to ration water its on the ground in immense quantities, no need to develop new energy infrastructure we've burnt hydrocarbons for hundreds of years and have immense engines.
50 year mars colony- People reliant on immense shipments just to live in buried cave bases with nothing to go outside and do.
50 year titan colony- 1G Centrifuge habitat, full energy and production infrastructure, you can fly from ground to orbit in a fucking jet if you want, tons of places to explore, internal liquid water crust gives long term exploration goal, you can build a space elevator easy stare out the window and look at Saturn's rings.
>>11345904It would literally be a 1g habitat centrifuge cheaper than anywhere else in the solar system with full artificial lighting that can easily simulate days and nights as well as hot as humans want to live. Things that would only ever be on mars a hundred years into colonizing it, could be the first priority of mass sent into space for Titan. It's just rocket science.
