A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help researchers better understand the appropriate conditions … Continue reading "What’s the Bare Minimum Number of People for a Mars Habitat?"

A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help researchers better understand the appropriate conditions …

    • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I hate to be a hater but this is quite possibly the most depressing outlook on life there is. Its like saying “we cant even be proper hunter gathers. Why are me trying this farming thing”. Is it not in human nature to climb one mountain just to look to the next?

    • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      We can’t even look after earth.

      You seem to have answered your own question.

      • Uncle_BagelEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        There is nothing short of the moon falling to the Earth that can make Mars a more viable place for humans than the Earth.

    • supercriticalcheese@feddit.itEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well that’s a reason.

      At the moment with current technology, colonising other planets in the solar system is unsustainable without a lot of effort from earth so I doubt anything will come out of it in the near term.