The Delusion Of Settling On #Mars

“For decades, space evangelists have promoted Martian settlement as an insurance policy, a ‘lifeboat’ should human folly or a planet-killing asteroid bring about Earth’s 6th great extinction event,” Henry Wismayer writes.

But “after weeks of reading about the challenges of settling Mars, I was preoccupied with one glaring truth. Mars is an uncompromisingly hostile planet, & a dreadful place to be a living organism.”

See how any notional future pioneers of the Red Planet are likely to end up progressively irradiated, sick, mad & dead: https://www.noemamag.com/the-mars-delusion/?utm_source=noemayoutube&utm_medium=noemasocial

🎨: Thomas Merceron

#mars #spaceexploration #spacex

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