A reason for going to Mars

From: Lucio de Souza Coelho

> Maybe you misinterpreted another common point of view here: we think
> that space habitats are *so* more efficient than planets under a
> series of metrics (energy, transportation, unlimited habitable
> surface. etc) that in the long run the vast majority of people will
> live in orbital colonies.
Quite so. In a distant future where, due to the lack of even long-term limits to growth, there are hundreds of trillions of human beings living in various orbits throughout the Solar System, and 1 billion people living on Mars, a person might be forgiven for saying, "Hardly anybody lives on planets".

Regards,

Mike Combs