Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. […] I’m sure you have [a] sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever.
The article is tedious. The writer could make his points without whining, whingeing, and making bad jokes.
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I removed more unneeded humor from the quotation.
Protection from radiation would only require a couple feet of dirt, not a mile of it.