🪐 Would YOU live on Mars? 🚀
No air. No water. No way back (yet). 😨
So why are we still planning to live on Mars? NASA, SpaceX, and private companies are racing to build the first Martian settlements.
If humans colonize Mars, should it be run by governments, corporations, or an independent Martian society? 👀💬
Read more in:
🔗 https://quantum2077.com/mars-epic-journey-to-the-thrilling-red-planet/
#LifeOnMars #FutureCivilization #Quantum2077 #MarsColony #SpaceFuture #ColonizingMars

Wow this is beautiful, if bleak. Sorry to quote at such length but it's too good. He also pegs #ElonMusk well towards the end (though I'm not going to quote that bit).
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.

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The South Pole is around 2,800 meters above sea level, and like everywhere else on Earth around 44 million miles closer to the sun than any point on Mars. It sits deep down inside the nutritious atmosphere of a planet teeming with native life. Compared to the very most hospitable place on Mars it is an unimaginably fertile Eden. Here is a list of the plant-life that grows there: Nothing. Here is a list of all the animals that reproduce there: None.

Life on earth writ large, the grand network of life, is a greater and more dynamic terraforming engine than any person could ever conceive. It has been operating ceaselessly for several billions of years. It has not yet terraformed the South Pole or the summit of Mount Everest. On what type of timeframe were you imagining that the shoebox of lichen you send to Mars was going to transform Frozen Airless Radioactive Desert Hell into a place where people could grow wheat?
From https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

#Eugenics #Longtermism #EffectiveAltruism #Mars #MarsColony