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A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by meyotch to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The most not caveat is we don’t know how much gravity is how necessary. We know that microgravity in orbit is too little and not really sustainable. Is gravity on the moon enough more for long term health? Is that on Mars? That’s just two of the questions we can’t know until we get there