@hopfgeist @bjn I think it'd be informative. He genuinely dislikes us (the words "dishonest" and "enemy" have been used) but it's essentially the classic work in the field. Musk is a fan of it. If you want to know where the community is at, it's pretty central. We just think it skips over a lot of potential showstoppers and relies on theories of history that are inaccurate.

@ZachWeinersmith @bjn the X-Plane flight simulator had a "Mars" mode, simulating Mars gravity and atmospheric conditions. While we were developing planes to fly in that "thin air" (which we now know definitively to be totally possible), some 10 years ago, the book was mentioned a couple of times.