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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector (defector.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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By Albert Burneko

9:00 AM EDT on September 11, 2024

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars's dead core? No? Well. It's fine. I'm sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. No? Huh. Well then let's discuss something else equally realistic, like your plan to build a condo complex in Middle Earth.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I honestly don't think any wetware human will ever land on Mars or even enter its orbit.

We'll be posthuman cyborgs before that happens.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

just landing on mars? nah that'll happen soon. settling it on a long term basis is a whole other matter though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

We can land corpses or soon-corpses on Mars sure. Getting people there and back reliably and in good shape is going to be extremely difficult if not completely impossible. And the benefit is near zero.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Every time we do it we learn from it. That’s nowhere near zero.

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