Will any of us live long enough to see a permanent settlement on Mars?

[Bitmap Frogs]

Tyrannical said:

Bitmap Frogs said:

Helium 3 is nice, but it's useless until we develop fusion. It's a loooong way - for starters, we haven't even achieved ignition. We're talking 2030-2050. If it happens.

 

 And even then, I'm sure it would be far cheaper to manufacture HE3 on Earth.

Of course it would require a huge radioactive farm to grow the HE3 since it's a product of radioactive decay.

 

 

Yeah. Also I'm no fusion expert but if I recall there are several possible fusion reactions and HE3 is used in a harder to achieve reaction. But I'm not that sure about it.