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.

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    10 months ago

    Is anyone really thinking we just need to reach Mars, then immediately set up a colony? No, reaching there is obviously only a first step, but once we can reach it, we can try things to see if we can live there. For myself, I’ve been saying we need to hurry up and reach Mars because we have like 100 years of work before we can establish a colony so let’s get started

    • Ddub@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      10 months 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
        11·
        10 months 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
          1·
          10 months ago

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