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RE: How humans WON'T live on Mars.
Do you mean it would take so long to build structures aboveground that the first colonists would live their lives underground?
Do you mean it would take so long to build structures aboveground that the first colonists would live their lives underground?
Partially, but also that structures aboveground could not be built from in situ resources (like Martian soil) until the necessary industrial facilities exist on Mars for making buildings, as well as a sufficient population to operate and maintain those facilities.
It seems logical, even though people build very fast on Earth, since they'd be starting with nothing.
"For, in order to work iron, a hammer is needed, and the hammer cannot be forthcoming unless it has been made; but, in order to make it, there was need of another hammer and other tools, and so on to infinity. We might thus vainly endeavor to prove that men have no power of working iron. But as men at first made use of the instruments supplied by nature to accomplish very easy pieces of workmanship, laboriously and imperfectly, and then, when these were finished, wrought other things more difficult with less labor and greater perfection; and so gradually mounted from the simplest operations to the making of tools, and from the making of tools to the making of more complex tools, and fresh feats of workmanship, till they arrived at making, with small expenditure of labor, the vast number of complicated mechanisms which they now possess." - Spinoza
It's all fun and games until your tools start talking, and making their own tools.