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'''Interplanetary commerce''' offers unique benefits and challenges compared to [[inter-settlement commerce]] and [[intra-settlement commerce]].
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==Benefits==
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Interplanetary commerce allows for the introduction of ideas, goods, and resources that may be unavailable or prohibitively expensive from a native source.
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==Earth-Mars Trade==
 
==Earth-Mars Trade==

Revision as of 12:04, 11 January 2009

Interplanetary commerce offers unique benefits and challenges compared to inter-settlement commerce and intra-settlement commerce.

Benefits

Interplanetary commerce allows for the introduction of ideas, goods, and resources that may be unavailable or prohibitively expensive from a native source.

Challenges

Cost of transportation

Distance

Time

Earth-Mars Trade

Main article: Earth-Mars Trade

Earth-Mars trade will be the first type of interplanetary commerce established by Martian settlements.

Luna-Mars Trade

Main article: Luna-Mars Trade

Trade with Earth's moon could involve selling resources such as carbon, nitrogen, and other volatiles which are in short supply on Luna. The cost of transport from Mars is potentially less than from Earth.

See Also

Lunarpedia Business Ideaslunarp Many of these ideas also apply to a martian settlement.