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‘I went to Greenland to try to buy it’: Meet the founder who wants to recreate Mars on Earth


Praxis co-founder Dryden Brown wants to build a city in Greenland that emulates what a community on Mars could be like.

A 28-year-old deboarded, ready to march into the Nordic parliament building with a bold proposition: “I went to Greenland to try to buy it,” Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote in a viral tweet later. The group hosted 250 Praxis-supporters in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, earlier this month, where attendees like Bedrock’s Geoff Lewis and Mamuka Bakhtadze, former prime minister of Georgia, were presented with different location options for Praxis. “If we could replace the $500M with another revenue source — taxes from a new city, mining, and tourism post-terraforming — we could derisk accession, and get Greenlanders get their long-sought independence — and with it vast wealth,” Brown tweeted.

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