It's expensive to send anything into space, let alone make it to Mars. Chemical rockets are not cheap, even when you can recover the boosters and refurbish the engines. Comparatively, even visiting Mars makes a moon mission look like a cakewalk.
Now it reaches just 2k$ per kilogram.
There’s a fiber there too, but I assume someone is so incompetent to make it reliable and affordable that a $500 dish is able to serve entire resort.
It’s been 11 years since HN thought manned was better.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540279
Where’s the guy who told us crab fishing in Alaska is also dangerous?