Sorry, Elon: Henry Ford Started a Colony First
Fordlandia: the Middle-American Town in the Jungle
Building a city in a hostile environment? Mars certainly qualifies. You can only go there every 26 months when its orbit is close to Earth’s. You can’t breathe the atmosphere. The unfiltered solar radiation will kill you. My friend Christopher Minson laid it all out here.
Almost 100 years ago, Henry Ford did something similar: he built Fordlandia in the …