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Science & Nature
MargaretC • 12 cards
The one thing that explains everything(TOTTEE)
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going https://g.co/kgs/z8Q3zh
Guns, Germs, and Steel https://g.co/kgs/X8gqyC
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind https://g.co/kgs/Uk1z7U
Grammatical Man https://g.co/kgs/KEXTTT

https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-scientist-and-cartoonist-envision-living-on-the-moon-and-mars/
Fascinating book answering the question - "Have we thought through" living" in space which is totally different from "visiting" space?"
The answer is no.
The economic, physical, biological and legal
barriers are enormous and many of them are pretty much ignored by enthusiasts for settling on the Moon, on Mars or in space habitats.
The book point out that during long lunar nights the moon’s more frigid than Antarctica. It’s also airless, low-gravity, and bombarded with space radiation, and it lacks carbon for growing plants and any valuable minerals.
Mars comes with many of those challenges and more: The dead Martian dirt is filled with poisonous perchlorate, its dust storms are prone to covering outdoor equipment, including much-needed solar panels, and it’s much farther away, which creates a 20-minute time delay when trying to talk to anybody back home. “So that’s Mars. Most of the problems of the Moon, plus toxic dust storms and "half-year" flight each way.
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