Mars Is A Hell Hole

The Atlantic ^ | 26/2/21 | Shannon Stirone

[dfwgator]

Guess that answers David Bowie’s question about if there’s Life on Mars?

[tet68]

Welcome to Hell...Here’s your accordion.

[hanamizu]

“In fact, the only things our planet and Mars really have in common ...”

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A couple of other things the planets have in common. Mars has a roughly 24-hour day, and Mars’s axis tilt is a bit more than 25º where Earth’s is a bit more than 23º.
The 24-hour day bit makes observing Mars through a telescope a bit boring since it shows the same face towards the observer for weeks on end.

[dfwgator]

[tet68]

People like this author appear to have never seen
people swiming in water. You can die there just as fast.

[Rummyfan]

So is Baltimore.

LOL! True.

[Publius]

One of my favorite Gary Larson cartoons.

[Sirius Lee]

I guess it boils down to, is it easier and more feasible to build a Mars colony , or to wait for the tech to build an O’Niell type of vast orbital space tube?

I dunno. I just hope the music of Bach and Chopin, and to a much, much lesser extent, Mozart, still exists at that time.

[jmacusa]

University of Mars fight song: “Surrender Earthlings!’’.

[Rummyfan]

Elon Musk?!

[LibWhacker]

[cp124]

Minerals will be the future space wars.

[Travis McGee]

Robots are the perfect way to explore Mars, asteroids, or anywhere else.

Sending humans means 100 X the cost of robots just for the vanity screen shot of a living human in a pressurized space suit planting a flag, and, (hopefully) making it home alive.

For that price, we can send 100 X the number of robots (with the same cameras and sensors) to every planet and asteroid in the solar system.

[Travis McGee]

Grabbing asteroids and throwing them back to earth still won’t require humans.

See above.

[Rummyfan]

Do you really think that if human beings show up in significant numbers anywhere that the political Left will just leave them in peace?

Any community on Mars will be by definition far-removed from current earthly political trends. A chance to start over. Anyone espousing leftie drivel can just go off and start on their own.

[Tijeras_Slim]

In a “no prisoners” sort of way.

[beethovenfan]

II Peter 3:10-13. It’s coming. Better be ready.

[Boogieman]

“Also, she never heard of terra forming?”

Ah yes, a speculative technology that doesn’t actually exist, that’s the ticket.

[rdl6989]

This thread absolutely cries out for that reply.

[higgmeister]

LDo you really think that if human beings show up in significant numbers anywhere that the political Left will just leave them in peace?

The idea is that the Leftists would never make it anywhere else.   They would taste the vacuum of space long before they reached the destination.   When air has a price, it isn't as likely to be wasted.