@nyrath
Raise your hand if you already know this mad plan isn't ever going to happen. At most, we might see a *very* small number of human landings; no permanent settlement will come of it.
If by some dark sorcery he DOES manage a "long-term" presence, it will be a base with at most a dozen or so fools, who will die horribly from some foreseeable systems failure. And the story will end there.
It's much easier to establish a long-term undersea presence, and we've never done that at any significant scale either.
{ raises hand }
I have read "A City on Mars.
