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.

  • Ddub@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t disagree that having a self sustaining population of humans somewhere other than earth will be an important milestone.

    But a much more pressing milestone is a the first self sufficient population, which I don’t see mars supporting

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      We don’t know if a self-sustaining population is possible anywhere other than Earth. However we know lack of gravity is one issue we don’t have a workaround for. Mars is the only “large” gravity we can possibly reach with our current level of technology

      • Ddub@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think you missed my point, I don’t believe we have a self sustaining population on earth (yet)