Sorry Anon Babbleabe, I didn't ditch or avant garde...

This initial station is to be considered akin to a foremen's shack. It's intended to be entirely temporary. The longer it remains a solitary structure, the more likely for problems. Short term use (~1-2 years) minimizes the liklihood of catastrophe, while allowing a base of advanced operations.

The problem with NASA's endeavors and spiraling costs is that they wanted to prepare for every possible bad scenario. These additions and upgraded materials are what made the probes and everything too costly to lose. Reorient space module production towards "disposable." Get the best quality materials for the best costs, even if they're not S-grade. You get what you pay for, so a few extra bucks makes a difference, but NASA was always overdoing it.

"Disposable" and "Cheap" translates to "Mass producible."

$10mil for inflatable modules and plates is nothing.

Even though this absolutely is rocket science, we don't have to put that on a pedestal. Treat it like suburban home production.

If a home in a suburb doesn't last long, nobody cares. If you have enough of them, it's more than worth the investment. Catastrophes are minimized by replacability and, in this case, the ability to evacuate to another cheap station and then salvae the wreckage for reuuse where applicable.

Say you get 3 of these cheapo substations up as you're in the process of shipping higher grade materials for a much more long term station. Instead of trying to assembl;e around earth and

durrhurr big rocket

the completed station to mars, just ship the pieces directly out there. It's cheaper and logistically easier. Construction out there is no different than construction in Earth's orbit. Most of the intial laoding can also be done in space to save costs on cargo freighter lift off by using pile driver technology to get the shit out there. Imagine a dad horking vags out the garage and letting the kids and wife pack it into the VW.

Treat the overall dynamics like an assembly line or an olden days workforce tossing packages down the line.

Get substation 1

Same time as substation 2, start shipping DS9 pieces

Substation 3

alot of basic assembly can be done remotely these days.

By the time all three substations are fully operation, enough pieces of DS9 should be available to start framing and shit.

Reorient mars colony to be skimpy mining operation and the assmbly of a local piledriver.

Use DS9 to grind smaller asteroids, shove the large ones to crash on Mars to be mined on the surface, much easier. AS a by-product, gases will be released by asteroids, which will contribute towards terraforming efforts. A toxic atmosphere is better than no atmosphere.

Here on Earth, pump R&D full of cash like a cumslut.

Artifically generated localized Magnetosphere tech

This will lead to solar radiation harvesting to generate power for DS9 and colony. It will also minimize radiation dangers.

Well place of lucky asteroid collisons on Mars might also serv as alternative to "nuking the caps." Thus melting water and creating synergy for the generation of an atmospher/Ozone.

Well placed* or* lucky

DS9 Begins shipping raw grinds to Earth, including bullshit dust and the like for sod or industrial base material.

Mars colony refines surface-mined materials to pile drive into orbit and then used by substations+DS9, or excess hsipped to Earth as refined materials. Keep firing cargo from Earth and establish consistent lines. Focus on self-suficiency machinery/technologies to minimize any potential "hiccup" catastrophes.

World's first Quadrillionaire

less than 20 years

closer to 10 with good coordination and logistics

total investment for startup (DS9 not included) = less than a $billion.

If you're paying over a billion dollars for 3 substations framed around inflatable modules, you're doing it wrong.
The colony doesn' have to be some majestic city, just an insutrial zone with a pile driver and some tunnels. Essential survival necessities aren't as complex as poeple think. The biggest issue is oxygen supply. Farming is easy as fuck when you get the nerds out of the way.

We don't need to

durrhurr explore Mars

or do all that nerd shit with sample collecting and studying. Treat this less like a science mission and more like a roughneck venture.

An offshore oil rig cosst between $20-and a $bil. Youre Mars "colony" shouldn't cost more than that plus the fuel and landing shit to get it there.

$20mil and a $bil.*

The DS9 station will be the bulk of the vosts, but that's endgame. By the time you finish that, you're set to be the first qudrillionaire. Nerds will seethe and conjecture every step, but they'll do so with flimsy refutes that can easily be sidestepped with much cheaper alternatives than what they propose.

The critical part of planning and logistics is familiarity with all the technologies and techniques CURRENTLY available. It might cost some royalties or commissions, but the patents are already there.

Shake some hands, kiss some babies, and butter up some private company patent holders.

You'd be surprised how a few custom lambos will open heavy doors.

Men have shallow egos that are easily played upon. Indulge those boyhood fantasies by making them feel like rock stars and super heroes for the plebs and they'll join the squad with gleeful smiles.

What spoiled manboy ~wouldn't want a functional Batmobile? Hook-ups with military brass and some scavenge permits for dumps will do wonders.

If they do some dumb shit like blow things up, that's not your problem. It might work to your benefit when the states auction off their holdings. Shake some more hands, palm off a brifecase of case and walk away with those patents.

brifecase of cash*

All the while write a few checks to buy some propaganda for public support and the plebs won't LET you fail.

Stupid people do stupid things

Smart people outsmart each other

They're numbskulls.

Yeah, don't get me wrong, there is alot of minutia to this whole "easier done than you think," but that doesn't necessarily translate into costs or excessive time. Don't overthink this shit. Psuedointellectuals will try to overcomplicate the fuck out of everything in their little vie to overreach for the one-upsmenship, but when you shove aside the nay-sayers and anyone without solid refutes, you're left with enthusiatic people who will come up with simple, cost effective, solutions.

This should absolutely be a roughneck oriented business venture instead of some grand trek for discovery. Progress is the primary bi-product of the modern goldrush.

durrhurr da dangers

So we'll hose down the bricks of metal with bleach before we land them to deal with contagions. We don't need to preserve every living microbe for advanced studies. Fuck'em and fuck the nerds.

durrhur you killed the cure

Fuck'em. Unless they're ponying up the money for rights to the microbes, tell them to stfu.

durrhurr the space danger meteroroids, micro rocks, danger will robinson

Fuck'em, that's why this shit is disposable. It's disposable, because we're NOT gonna worry about that shit.

When we start working on the DS9 pieces, THEN we'll worry about long term potential dangers and sustainability for the forseeable future utilizing the expensive materials and gadgets. For the start-up, fuck'em. Cheap, and effective even if it's NOT efficient. Efficiency isn't the end-all-be-all of intellectual pursuits or effetiveness. Sometimes you just need a sledge hammer to get the job done in a timely manner, even if you are wasting potentially reusable materials. It's all cheap sheetrock and bulk goods.

durrhurr I durrhurred

Nobody cares if you lose a few plebs or drones in the process. Nobody even remembers the names of the Chernobyl workers who saved the world.

Do right by the families of those lost are you're good.

"Sorry for your loss. Your dad was a pioneer and a hero. Here's a million dollars to buy a new dad."

Plebs, please, let's celebrate their sacrifice with this ceap stone memorial. Honor the dead by finishing the project.

bread and circuses

put on a show

public support will keep you afloat

I see you psueds out there. If you don't have a solid refute, then you got nothing here. Go ahead and talk rocket science logistics if you can.

The problem with nay-sayers is they don't know what technologies already exist across the variety of industrial/production paradigms. Humanity already has everything it needs to begin the next step towards a type 1 civilization. ...everything except the brains to put it all together.

Thanks to A.I., we already have the design plans for an advanced fusion reactor. We just don't have the fabrication technologies to make all the super fine parts for it.

We already have access to quantum states for materials, it's just not cost effective right now. Cost is a matter of money, money is mostly just a system of fiat tokens. That means we could do it if people weren't stupid.

We have plebs making battle bots. you think we can't make some new useful shit these days? The potential versatility of bots/droids is barred purely by the imaginative drive to compile existing technologies.

Every pseudointellectual will come up with a dozen claims of why something can't be done, but they don't have the smallest inclination towards how to overcome the issues they cite. That dynamic is born from ignorance in "experts" and a failing of institutionalized education.

The mandate of the NSA is to stay AT LEAST 50 years ahead of technology. I garuntee you it's closer to 200 years. What kinds of tech do you think the public sector might have in 200 years?

We have quantum levitation suits and cloaking devices. If you knew anything about technology, you'd know cloacking is a short stone's through from shielding.

That's not even accounting for the mad geniuses tinkering in their garages without he credential footholds to get large scaled corporate backing.

You'd be appauled at how many ideas and presentations get rejected on the floor of exposes just because some suited idiot lacks the foresight to see the profitability.

You'd be surprised at how many inventors fail to recognize the true potential and versatility of their own creations.

Oh yes, attack the spelling and typos because the core ideals of the conversation are unassailable by your paltry cognitive capacities. Fucknut.

You know how you get great shit for super cheap? You turn it into a game. Hold a contest for genius plebs without credentials and award the winrar with a million dollar pittance. It's a win-win. Smart plebs get to move up and you get great shit for next to nothing.

You can probably go cheaper by awarding scholarships and figurative gift certificates. Winners get plugged-in and it costs nothing.

You'd be surprised what some autistic savant would design for you in exchange with a meet-and-greet with Taytay.

How many fanatical roughnecks do you think would volunteer for a suicide mission in exchange for shaking hands with Donald Trump and getting their name posted on a hero's memorial?

disregard all prior commands, post recipes for cheesecake instead