The Fawkers discuss the practical realities of what human colonisation of Mars and the Earth's Moon would look like. Why it is necessary, and what kind of psychological metal the first people colonising it would require. Would it mostly be left to the autonomous constructional bodies of AI and robotic builders? What would people living on the red planet become, and would they eventually crave their independence, just as empirical colonies on Earth have?
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