{"id":122,"date":"2020-10-12T06:07:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T06:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marshallbrain.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2020-10-12T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:46:01","slug":"mars10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marshallbrain.com\/mars10","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – Chapter 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – The greatest thought experiment of all time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Marshall Brain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 10<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What might a typical “work week” look like on Mars? Who gets a free ride on Mars? Who will do the undesireable jobs on Mars?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you take a moment to reflect back on the previous chapter, one thing you notice is that the Mars colony is starting to flesh out into a complete societal model. The colonists are now being provided with a wide range of essential products and services \u2013 things like food, housing, health care and education \u2013 without it “costing” much in terms of the number of human hours being contributed to the system. We have estimated that 510 million hours of human time per year can provide the one million members of the Mars colony with many of the essentials necessary to live a comfortable human existence on Mars. So far the colonists are producing and receiving:<\/p>\n\n\n\n