Why “A City on Mars” may not be as great an idea as it sounds

Leave Earth ~ Construction of a city on Mars by eccentric scientists

Face it, people, the Earth is finite. It’s over-covered, over-crowded and over-regulated. The Earth is a squalid house that is about to collapse, a landfill that we inherited from our parents and which we will cruelly hand over to our children. Now it’s time to leave Earth and go to Mars. What are you talking about? Or not.

Racing towards the solar system is an attractive fantasy. But “A City on Mars” is an exceptional new work of popular science from Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, authors who “spend very little time writing.” These authors suggest that we must quickly give up our planet.

This highly engaging and fun-filled book essentially allows people who have been looking for a place to live in the night sky to realistically test whether this is really possible.

“A City on Mar’s” divides the arguments for and against the immediate colonization of Mars into two areas. The first area is the noble idea that humanity must spread to other planets “before civilization collapses”. This is the same thing Elon Musk said to Tulane University professor Walter Isaacson, who was chairman and president of CNN.

The second area is the “hot subway debate.” In other words, the value of going into space is to cool the Earth.

The authors completely dismantle the first theory. The Weinersmiths, self-described “science geeks,” embarked on this book with the expectation of writing a “sociological roadmap” for escaping Earth and establishing a space colony in the near future.

Can we send the wonderful everyday life of Earth on a rocket into terrible space?

However, as they dive into the study of outer space planets for their writings, the most ardent advocates of creating space colonies are amazed by the beauty of the rockets that carry the things that make up our daily lives, such as food, birth, democracy and life. law: we discovered that we had been deceived and were unable to send them into space.

The main problem, Weinersmith writes, is that “the universe is terrible, everything is terrible”.

“The moon is not just a gray, oxygen-free place like the Sahara desert. The Moon’s surface is made of fine, electrically charged glass and rock dust that sticks to spacesuits and landers.
And the same goes for Mars, outside Earth’s Death Valley: Its soil is full of toxic chemicals, and its thin carbon atmosphere can cause dust storms across the planet, completely wiping out the sun for several weeks.
Block him. But Mars is a good place to land.

If civilization were truly on the verge of collapse, they argue, perhaps it would be worth overlooking the horrors of the universe. But the horrors of the universe are not so formidable. Life on Earth is also difficult. It’s always been difficult. This may continue to be the case in the future. However, we should not believe that the difficult problems we have faced so far will be solved just because humanity migrates to a place without food, water or air.

As the Weinersmiths write in their book, “Despite the climate crisis, nuclear war, and things like zombies and werewolves, Earth is a much better place to live than Mars.”

So what about Hot Tube’s claim that going into space helps cool the Earth’s heat? The Weinersmiths believe that current space laws allow people to engage in unregulated pushing races to find the few resources that will soon disappear, creating a rugby race that threatens to lead to war on Earth.

As our extraterrestrial presence grows, it will become easier for terrorists or surly billionaires to hurl asteroids at Earth, endangering it and wiping out the species we are trying to save.

“The greater our ability to do what we need to do in the universe, the more altruistically we have the capacity to draw us closer to God,” these authors write.

It’s a dark thought, but the content is entertaining, which alleviates the darkness somewhat. No, the book ‘A City on Mars’ is so funny it makes you laugh. The breezy prose is interspersed with charming vignettes and illustrations, ranging from a couple having sex in zero gravity to the absurd urinals that NASA engineers designed for female astronauts, apparently without consulting the women.

Earth isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough for a planet.

“Getting weird in the Lagrange or can you do it in space? There’s a section that deals with “You say something strange. Would it make sense in space?” and “How to Have Space Babies Without Marrying Your Own

Space Cousin: How can I have a space child without marrying my space cousin?
The interesting story of astronauts about “moon clay” – a theoretical building material. It’s made by mixing Martian soil and human blood – the entire story is one paragraph.

But most of the book is devoted to answering very interesting practical questions about colonization. There’s also a story of rocket science, space law and celestial advertising.

In this book we learn how to build planetary colonies in orbit, why dry lava tubes are prime property on Mars, and how cities rely on a single corporation when their managers control food, water, light, and electricity. air of the workers of Mars. Find out why it’s a bad idea.

From start to finish, Weinersmith advocates an approach to colony they call “True Insa Daecheonmyeon, do your best and wait for success.” It funds hundreds of experiments on the biosphere (the Earth’s habitable surface and atmosphere) to learn about human survival in closed habitats.

It is also said to conduct a systematic study on cloning animals in orbit. So that we can find out if it is safe for people to leave Earth and get pregnant. They call for the establishment of a regulatory body to modernize space law to fit today’s times and ensure that space is as valuable as Antarctica.

Once the basic framework is established, hundreds or thousands of immigrants can move in together: even that number is enough to create a real civilization. Enough to thrive.

On the other hand, it tells us to be grateful for what we have. “The Earth isn’t perfect,” the Weinersmiths write, “but for a planet it’s pretty good.” This book will make you happy to live on this planet – and isn’t that a good thing? Because you won’t be leaving Earth anytime soon.

(WM Akers, who wrote this review, is a writer, editor of the newsletter 「Strange Times」, and a pop cast providing various movie services through the Internet. 「I’ll Watch Anything and creator of the game Deadball; Baseball With Dice」 co-host)

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