Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Why Musk Is Wrong About Mars" video.

  1. Mars got almost no atmosphere, too little sunlight, while still no protection against radiation, the ground is extremely toxic, it lacks water and the idea to just melt some ice yet to be discovered in amoung which just not evaroparte won't lead anywhere. I like the response of another oligarch, Jeff Bezos, to the idea of living on Mars: "Try to live on the top of mount everest first." What is MUCH easier by a great margin. Overall the first thing you have to go for is advanced robotik to a point in which these robots can do everything themselves, including own repair and production, so you can send them to mars, where they will start to build completely self sustaining habitats without the need for those themselves. At this point you could maybe live in such biospheres - like you could on many other planets, including the moon and of course even better on earth. But even on earth Biospheres barely work and a single mistake can break the whole system. Of course on earth you can simply open the door and step outside. Everywhere else you just die horribly.
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  2. ISS is also still pretty much 'on earth' an way inside the magnetic field. Not even starting with the psychological effect having earth still right in front of you vs eternity of endless space around you with no escape whatsoever, quicky leading to a lockdown fatigue on the level of "Even Horizon" (the movie) without any need of hell, especially when you come up with the numbers Musk is throwing around with up to 100 people in that still extremely small Spaceship of his.
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