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A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social to c/space@kbin.social

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

The authors of the book in the article, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, were also on an episode of Factually. Between this article and that episode, I'm pretty down on any cool scifi future in space.

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[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They're not like, that pessimistic about it, but they raise extremely pressing questions that need to be investigated and understood for things to be successful.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Exactly. In the podcast episode I linked, the authors explain how they're sci-fi nerds and fans of space exploration. They started out writing a book about how cool it would be, but started asking these questions and realized we don't have the answers yet. That's not pessimism, it's practicality