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.

  • masquenox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    We’re not exactly hurting for water

    Oh really?

    This doesn’t require building a civilization of any sort

    I guess you’re the kind of fantasist that believe they invent food at the supermarket, eh?

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      1 year ago

      California is a localized problem, as all water shortages are, because we live on a fucking water planet.

      Fishing does not require supermarkets. It requires driving a boat to where fish are, then driving home.

      • masquenox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        because we live on a fucking water planet.

        So… not like Mars?

        It requires driving a boat

        And the boat will be useful on Mars because…?

          • masquenox@lemmy.worldEnglish
            23·
            1 year ago

            Pick a topic.

            Soooo… you agree that Antarctica has tons of resources which Mars doesn’t.

            Remind me… which one is your hero Phony Stark planning to build his capitalist Utopia in again?