“If NASA is Amtrak in space, then SpaceX is the Fyre Festival with rockets, a glamorous effort led by a hype man who promises that every logistical problem will melt away if we can just get people to the destination.”

#BARS! I’m reading this piece making the case against human exploration of #Mars, and it’s crushing my childhood dreams and also making too much sense. This line above though! Have you read the piece?

https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm

#space #nasa #spaceexploration

Why Not Mars (Idle Words)

@baratunde I thought this Kurzgesagt video did a decent job of laying out many of the difficulties of long-term habitation on Mars, though it still seems to take the attitude that it would be worthwhile on a long enough time scale.
https://youtu.be/uqKGREZs6-w
Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!

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