In the immediate term, Mars will need Glass domes, a power station, and an assortment of basic living fundamentals, he cautioned. After the infrastructure is complete, "then really the explosion of entrepreneurial opportunity [will begin], because Mars will need everything from iron foundries to pizza joints," he said.
He should be required to take a heavy quota of lawyers to Mars. We'd be rid of them for a while, and he'd wind up compelled to stop making stupid statements like, "living on Mars will be the easy part", or like the above one, about building iron foundries on a planet where there is next to no atmosphere and zero coal deposits.
Pinging the APoD list. Thanks Simon Green.
I guess you have to be an optimist in his line of work.