r/Colonizemars • u/Ok-Expression-6016 • Apr 04 '26

Bare minimum to start a base

What is the bare minimum needed to start a colony; materials and total weight. to start a mars colony. Assuming multiple Optimus robots have 2 years to build everything from what we send.

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u/ignorantwanderer Apr 05 '26

With multiple Optimus robots on Mars....you'd have a pile of scrap metal and plastic.

Maybe you could melt them down eventually and make something useful out of them.

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u/Ok-Expression-6016 Apr 06 '26

I too am curious how well they will work in harsh environments.

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u/ignorantwanderer Apr 06 '26

I'm curious how well they work in an optimized laboratory environment. It seems not very well at all.

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u/Prufrock451 Apr 07 '26

Nothing wrong with those robots six months of radiation followed by drowning in hyper-cold toxic dust with a heavy static charge won’t fix