Comment by mybestday
It makes the same amount of sense as a colony on Mars, largely for the same reasons.
Sure you can put people underground, but that’s probably not much fun. Why not just do that on earth?
It makes the same amount of sense as a colony on Mars, largely for the same reasons.
Sure you can put people underground, but that’s probably not much fun. Why not just do that on earth?
Is the answer slavery? Once you've been taken to Mars and given your underground living quarters, you're going to be stuck there and not have any option but to carry on working or be thrown out to die on the surface.
It's basically nuclear preparedness research.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...