Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival.

Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival.

The authors of the book in the article, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, were also on an episode of Factually. Between this article and that episode, I’m pretty down on any cool scifi future in space.

  • Umbrias@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    They’re not like, that pessimistic about it, but they raise extremely pressing questions that need to be investigated and understood for things to be successful.

    • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. In the podcast episode I linked, the authors explain how they’re sci-fi nerds and fans of space exploration. They started out writing a book about how cool it would be, but started asking these questions and realized we don’t have the answers yet. That’s not pessimism, it’s practicality