From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 08:54:47 MST
Robert Bradbury wrote:
>Zubrin has clearly done his homework and clearly makes a valid case for Mars
>being perhaps the first place we should go on a long term "occupation" basis.
>... Many of his economic arguments for colonizing Mars disappear if we even
>get minimal AI for human worker equivalence.
I'd be interested to see the best economic argument for colonizing Mars,
even assuming we never get AI. Seems a hard sell to me.
Btw, a recent Journal of Transhumanism article touched on this topic
(see http://www.transhumanist.com/volume4/space.htm )
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