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A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)

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Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival.

The authors of the book in the article, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, were also on an episode of Factually. Between this article and that episode, I'm pretty down on any cool scifi future in space.

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[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Why bother terraforming planets, or settling them at all? With current tech we could capture an asteroid, throw it into an Aldrin Cycler orbit, and hollow it out into an O'Neil Cylinder. Boom, instant colony which can hold hundreds of millions of people and naturally cycles between near Earth and near Mars every couple years. Repeat as necessary.

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

So you want to have the Side colonies from Gundam?

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