Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival.

A book review on the latest Weinersmith creation. It’s true, there is so much we don’t know.

Just throwing this out there on this forum because missing technology is the problem that kills the dream of Mars, according to the authors.

  • ArbitraryValueEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The point isn’t that Mars is somehow less vulnerable to asteroid impacts than Earth, it’s that asteroids aren’t likely to hit Earth and Mars at the same time.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      He thought they didn’t happen on Mars for some reason and that he wanted to colonize it to hopefully abandon Earth altogether because we have apparently no hope here whatsoever and the planet isn’t salvageable anyway.