natflow@lemmy.worldtoFuturology@futurology.today•The invisible problem with sending people to Mars - Getting to Mars will be easy. It’s the whole ‘living there’ part that we haven’t figured out.English
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3 months agoSurprised the article doesn’t mention the recently published A City on Mars — a book by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, of Bea Wolf and SMBC. It talks about lots of other stuff but covers this too.
TL;DR: like the dams before, highway construction is expensive and the system has reached saturation, so the momentum might yet be slowed by another coalition of environmentalists and fiscal conservatives.