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A Mars colony that simply puts humans on Mars is decades away.

A Mars colony that puts a whole parallel self sufficient society on Mars with their own semiconductor manufacturing and so on is millenia away.



I would wager that if we get a established research colony on Mars, we're 100 years away from a mostly self-sufficient small city.

We're not going to have Mars colonized in a decade or two, but it's not going to take a thousand years, either. Probably. I'd say thriving colonies within a century or two.




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