>>12089157The issue of the colony is the unsustainability of a food/water system, unsustainability of an active replacement parts manufacturing and the unsustainability of law & order for a bunch of depressed people who think that they're about to die because XYZ happened.
All of these are potential crises that can wipe it out and the response that would come from Earth would either cost a lot, or would be missing. In order for the correct response you would essentially need to have an active highway between the planets and enough volume of transportation so that relocating resources and manpower would be at least barely feasible. Then comes the problem of feasibility. What do you produce there, that's not magnitudes cheaper on Earth anyway, to pay for the rockets, their fuel, and the general cost of the colony?
Elon knows all of this of course but he still kept shilling it. He even claimed back in 2010 that we would have an active colony by 2020. When 2020 hit, he admitted that the earliest possible colony would be around 2050 and that's already pushing it. This is the cold blackpilling truth - we can't colonize Antarctica yet and we actually have the needed feasibility in doing so. But people just can't do it. Mars is much more complicated than Antarctica, or underwater colonization, or even a very basic Saharan colonization.
