Clarke’s first law comes to mind:
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.“
So, eventually, it will be done. It may take may more decades or a few centuries. Several colonisations have needed more than one or two attempts. But in the end, they succeeded with better technology. So Mars and other currently deadly places will be colonised. Probably with technology indistinguishable from magic. dataare.cool/@anandamide/11311…
"Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars"It's great to see someone FINALLY mention the magnetosphere issue, in the very first sentence no less, but this article rips into the idea so much more thoroughly than that, and with admirable gusto.
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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well.defector.com
