Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. […] I’m sure you have [a] sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever.
The article is tedious. The writer could make his points without whining, whingeing, and making bad jokes.
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I removed more unneeded humor from the quotation.
Honestly, that’s space in general. As time goes on, it becomes increasingly obvious that space is not only dead, but hostile too. Humans can’t even live in low gravity for extended periods of time. The ships required to use centrifugal force would be massive and require insane amounts of resources that I don’t even think a socialist country could achieve without unified effort or other nations.
We look at a lot of exoplanets and we find that terrestrial planets in the Goldilocks Zone are quite rare in comparison to mercury like planets, gas giants and debris clusters. Take a look at the theorized habitable exoplanets and a good chunk of them have massive possible flaws.
I do not believe you can give birth in space either.
Actually we don’t know that one way or the other. We have an evolution’s worth of experience living in 1G, half a century in 0G, and a few weeks in 1/6G. And that’s it. We’re not going to know anything more until we establish some long-term science outposts on other worlds.