The United Arab Emirates Just Released Plans to Build a City on Mars

Get ready for the future!

PETER DOCKRILL    18 FEB 2017

NASA and SpaceX aren’t the only players in the Mars colonization game, with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) having just outlined an ambitious plan of its own: to build a city the size of Chicago on the Red Planet.

While US interests are intent on shipping us to Mars within the next two decades, the UAE is taking a decidedly more long-term view, with its “Mars 2117″project set to design, build, and populate a human colony on Mars over the course of the next 100 years.

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