Building a City on Mars: Musk Reveals the Main Obstacle.

American entrepreneur and owner of SpaceX, Elon Musk, stated that humanity will only be able to begin conquering other planets after improving rocket and space technologies by a thousand times. Sending useful cargo to Mars costs a billion dollars, and the price is constantly rising. Under such conditions, building a city on Mars will prove too expensive. 

Since your handle is “Whole Mars”, perhaps this lengthy reply is apropos:Getting the cost per ton to the surface of Mars low enough that humanity has the resources to make life multiplanetary requires a roughly 1000X improvement in rocket & spacecraft technology. Recent US… Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 15, 2024

«Building a city on Mars will likely require at least a million tons of equipment, which would demand over 1,000 trillion dollars. This is obviously impossible, considering that the GDP of the US is only 29 trillion dollars», – wrote Musk.

However, there is a way out. If technologies are improved and made cheaper by a thousand times, the overall cost of building a city on Mars will significantly decrease, making the plan realistic.

Previously, Musk reported that SpaceX plans to launch the first unmanned missions to Mars in two years and then send the first crewed missions in four years.