[ExI] Michio Kaku makes 3 predictions about the future

[Stuart LaForge]

Quoting Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com>:

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> Mars has gravity, and large amounts of free mass [soil] for radiation
> shielding, located at the bottom of a gravity well [boo!] that's
> conveniently shallow enough that we can build a space elevator using
> materials technology that actually exists [yay!].
> That isn't nothing.

Agreed. Mars is likely to become a massive robotic manufacturing  
center for all kinds of durable goods. Mars has abundant ore for a  
variety of useful metals including sufficient uranium reserves that  
the Trump administration has issued a policy directive prohibiting  
NASA from building breeder reactors on Mars for fear of nuclear  
weapons enabled by Highly Enriched uranium.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20201223a/full/

While I don't see human cities thriving on Mars in the near term, I do  
certainly see people setting up gigantic nuclear-powered automated  
industrial parks, with a small cadre of highly-paid engineers and  
technicians doing several month long tours of duty there managing and  
repairing the robots that are building everything the  
environmentalists and NIMBYs find too polluting or dangerous to build  
here on Earth. There are no spotted owls to wring your hands over on  
Mars.

Stuart LaForge