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A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)

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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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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They would ship in a new scrubber but could they? We have to assume that a colony might need to self subsist for long periods, at least as long as Biosphere 2 was running, because of the practical considerations in shipping replacement parts to Mars.

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