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An escalator to nowhere: Science fiction lives and dies in space (open.substack.com)
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Space looms large in our futurist thinking. It's important to address what we misjudge to be possible in that realm in order to bring our expectations back down to Earth. Read more on Substack

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[–] Bimfred@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Definitely interested to read your take on why colonizing Mars is never happening. Far as I'm aware, there's no laws of physics stopping it, it's rather a number of complex engineering problems.