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Is There A Fortune To Be Made On Mars?

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Could colonizing Mars be a lucrative or potentially profitable venture? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Robert Walker, Author of articles about Mars and colonization, on Quora: Could colonizing Mars be a lucrative or potentially profitable venture? Actually I’ve written a chapter in my Case for Moon First about just this. It’s not easy to find much detail for Mars. There’s just the eight page section “Interplanetary Commerce” in Robert Zubrin’s “The Case for Mars”, while books on Lunar settlement and colonization devote many chapters to the topic and there are many published papers also on the commercial value of the Moon. PROMOTED According to Elon Musk, there is only one way to make a Mars colony profitable, and that’s through licensing of intellectual property - inventions and other intellectual creations. This idea originates with Robert Zubrin who also suggested that a Mar

Innovation Consumer Tech Is There A Fortune To Be Made On Mars? By Quora , Contributor. Follow Author Sep 26, 2016, 12:59pm EDT Jun 29, 2021, 04:45am EDT This article is more than 9 years old. (Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona via Getty Images) Could colonizing Mars be a lucrative or potentially profitable venture? originally appeared on Quora : the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights . Answer by Robert Walker , Author of articles about Mars and colonization, on Quora : Could colonizing Mars be a lucrative or potentially pr

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