"We'll never go into Space, don't go, you'll die out there, just give up"

So sick of those losers on here, "give up, Mars has no magnetosphere, give up on Space!" , like they're attacking Elon Musk or something.

Tell you what mate, the things you enjoy are shit and wrong and you're a fool, how's about that one yeah?

And you're wrong about Mars, because unlike you, I read up about this stuff, because it's my Interest.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521005099

#Space #Mars

@Lazarou @cstross Both sides of this discussion should read Zach & Kelly Weinersmith’s excellent book A City on Mars that does a great job of listing the many technological and social barriers to Mars while still casting it as a worthy endeavour

@dx @Lazarou Shockingly, some of us were discussing the pros and cons of whether Mars colonization is possible a couple of decades before they wrote that book …

@cstross @Lazarou I never said it was a new idea, just that their book is the most thorough and up to date treatment of the topic.

@dx @Lazarou Yes well, you're recommendinga pop sci book to people without first assessing your audience's needs, i.e. whether they *need* another pop sci treatment as opposed, to, say, footnoted references via scihub.

@cstross @Lazarou I get the impression you haven’t actually read the book. Though not peer reviewed, it seemed well researched and sourced to me. But it ain’t my field, and wasn’t my field even when I *was* a scientist publishing space-related papers, so who knows… Maybe you’re right? 🤷‍♀️

@dx @Lazarou I haven't read it; I've read a whole lot of the authors' posts about it and I broadly agree with them … having reached the same conclusions a decade previously (and it shows up in at least one of my novels).