Comment on A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoThat’s silly. The asteroid point isn’t that Mars is somehow asteroid-proof, it’s that having a presence on multiple planets prevents any one single planet-destabilizing disaster from causing our species’ extinction.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Right, but his thought process was that Mars was somehow immune to asteroid impacts and that was the point he was sold on.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Maybe, I try not to jump to conclusions based on my speculation on others’ thought processes.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And that’s fine, but don’t assume that’s what people do. You do you. I wouldn’t say otherwise if he hadn’t been explicit about it.