Scott Solomon
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You've got oxygen.
That's your accelerant.
Okay.
Yeah, so you can potentially make rocket fuel there on Mars and get back.
But again, I don't think the challenge is going to be technological.
I think it's going to be biological.
I think the risk to people of going back and forth and getting sick is going to keep people from doing it.
Yeah, I know.
It's, I mean, you know, I think it's probably impossible for us to know.
I think other than saying it would be very different, right?
So, yeah, I think it would be, it would have to be self-contained because there's not going to be as much interaction because of the communication delays.
So I think it would be a unique thing.
And this, you know, humans have done this, this type of thing over and over again.
We reinvent ourselves.
A culture rapidly changes when we have, you know, people that go off to a new place.
even just, you know, for short periods of time.
I'm thinking about like, you know, you go on a trip with somebody and you come back with inside jokes, right?
You know, it happens fast.
But yeah, I think people would be culturally different quite rapidly if they're living on Mars.
Well, there's some pretty serious ones.