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A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by meyotch@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A book review on the latest Weinersmith creation. It’s true, there is so much we don’t know.

Just throwing this out there on this forum because missing technology is the problem that kills the dream of Mars, according to the authors.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is one of those things that will need baby steps.

— using local water and dirt are probably a minimum for any non-trivial stay

— yes we really need to be able to grow our own food, at least if we want to scale up from a temporary base for a handful to something larger or more permanent. Again, this is one of the things we probably need to go there to find out: is it possible to grow a lot of our own food?