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Robert Zubrin has been planning for Martian colonization for decades. He's like the Kurzweil for the movement, his Mars Society has been on a quixotic quest. Hopefully SpaceX hires him on as a consultant.

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I would hire Kim Stanley Robinson first :)

Hire both!

For Mars? I doubt it: "It’s important to say that the idea of Mars as a lifeboat is wrong, in both a practical and a moral sense." ... "My feeling now is that faced with the extreme expense, technical challenge, and danger of going to Mars, interest is going to shift to the moon as a destination that can actually be reached and occupied during some of our lifetimes."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/why-elon-m...

Ah, Kim Stanley Robinson. Smart guy. If only he understood any economics, at all.

Hydrazine is the new gold standard.

Absolutely. An even closer cooperation between the Mars Society and Spacex would be great. I am pretty sure though his critique will be studied quite closely by Spacex.

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