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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, the man who says he plans to colonize Mars can't find a way to stop obviously dodgy social media signups.

tbf, colonizing Mars is an engineering problem, whereas social media is a sociological problem.

(I'm like 70% joking)

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Colonizing mars is a stupid thing to do pretty much full stop.

Mars cannot be terraformed. It has no meaningful magnetic field. That's a dead end for a planet's ability to retain a useful atmosphere and ward off cosmic radiation. You'll have to live in shielded, sealed pods to survive there, always. In which case you may as well be in space with access to abundant solar energy and less of a gravity well to contend with for your frequent resupply missions. There's barely any advantage to being on Mars compared to orbiting some random Lagrange point or the sun itself. I guess you can make use of some earthworks for civil engineering? Hardly seems worth it.

[–] paper_clip@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's barely any advantage to being on Mars compared to orbiting some random Lagrange point or the sun itself.

Oye Beltalowda.

[–] HappyHarryHadron@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Just started watching The Expanse, it's good shit

[–] smollittlefrog@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

There's also no point in colonizing mars. We have enough uninhabitated desert here on earth. It's not a space problem, it's a cost problem. And building on mars is a lot more costly than building in a desert.

[–] rastilin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I've read that Mars could retain an Earth-like atmosphere because, while it's stripped away by the solar wind, it would happen over tens of millions of years; any remotely plausible terraforming attempt would be able to replenish it much faster than that.