Alberto Burneko thinks that we will never colonize Mars. Understandably, he thinks this because of a number of serious obstacles to colonizing Mars such as the cold, radiation, the absence of food, water, and oxygen, the distance from help on earth, and so on. Less understandably, he writes as though these are novel objections that just slipped everyone’s mind, or that other people never encountered in school:
This, I think, is a consequence of more people having gotten their science education from the movie character Ian Malcolm than from actual science classes.
Why would you even bother writing an article this long taking on people who don’t have a grade school understanding of outer space? I am not a rocket scientist, but I have read My First Book of Planets: All About the Solar System for Kids, and the caption was pretty straightforward. Too cold, no water.
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