A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? cover
A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
Description: A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? examines the practical, ethical, and scientific challenges involved in establishing human settlements on Mars. It presents perspectives on whether and how space colonization might be pursued
ISBN: 1984881728
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Animats · 2025-11-30 · Original thread
Related" "A City on Mars" (2024) [1] A useful book on why self-sustaining settlements on Luna, Mars, or earth orbit are pretty much hopeless. Remote bases that take a lot of supply, maybe, with great difficulty. The environment is just too hostile and doesn't have essential resources for self-sustaining settlements. The authors go into how Antarctic bases work and how Biosphere II didn't.

The worst real estate on Earth is better than the best real estate on Mars or Luna.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/City-Mars-settle-thought-through/dp/1...