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A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Do not colonize other planets. They suck. They have all the downsides of space habitats (needing sealed environment, etc), while also adding more (breaches now let in toxic dust instead of vacuum, cannot control gravity via spin, etc).

Just build O'Neil cylinders. If you can't do that, maybe work on stabilizing the ecosystem we evolved to live in. Nowhere will ever be better than here, folks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it’s a Jack O’Neil cylinder, I will consider your proposal.

It works like a regular O’Neil cylinder, but cooler somehow.

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