- No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
- ‘no magnetosphere’ is a dead giveaway that a writer’s only done cursory research. yeah, radiation is a problem. you solve it by sending an excavator and piling up some regolith overhead as shielding. the real problem is, and always will be, that it cost trillions for no return on investment
- Sure, you can spend your lifetime on Mars hiding under several metres of shielding, but that's not really "colonizing" in my book. Plus the enormous challenges of sustainable air and food. of course... marspedia.org/Radiation_sh...
- Enormous challenges, but while I generally agree with their conclusions, their reasoning is wrong on a lot of it in ways that don’t even require any external knowledge. Like, neither Mt Everest nor Antarctica have been barren their entire existence—plate tectonics is real. Antarctica had dinosaurs.May 14, 2025 06:30