>>11163093>No the point is there was nothing at the top of mount everest that made it worth putting up with all those things to live there.There's prestige/thrill/etc to get there. But after that, you can get a helicopter ride down to base in 10 minutes. So a stronger incentive lies just 10 minutes away.
Mars is a different planet all together. So you can't just go back to earth in 10 minutes. On mars, you are forced to live there.
>US colonists had a rough time when they landed, but there were enormous resources waiting to be claimed by basically anyone willing to be a colonist. You could get free fertile land just by being willing to live on it. "Rough time" is a nice way of undermining the effort needed to start and maintain a colony. I had a "rough" time yesterday trying to find a new porn to masturbate to. The unknown land full of hostile people, hostile disease, and crops that don't grow, seasons that you don't know about, on top of scarce resource which forced the colony to be dependent on mainland, etc.
If you're unable to understand what early US was like, then you're unable to understand what Mars will be like. Its a lack of imagination for one and the inability to scope out 10-20-50-100 years in advance.
Mars isn't like going to disneyland, it will mainly be like military mission where you're forced to survive/thrive.
