Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector (defector.com)

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By Albert Burneko

9:00 AM EDT on September 11, 2024

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. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars's dead core? No? Well. It's fine. I'm sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. No? Huh. Well then let's discuss something else equally realistic, like your plan to build a condo complex in Middle Earth.

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[-] hackerwacker@lemmy.ml -4 points 6 days ago

I honestly don't think any wetware human will ever land on Mars or even enter its orbit.

We'll be posthuman cyborgs before that happens.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

just landing on mars? nah that'll happen soon. settling it on a long term basis is a whole other matter though.

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