“If NASA is Amtrak in space, then SpaceX is the Fyre Festival with rockets, a glamorous effort led by a hype man who promises that every logistical problem will melt away if we can just get people to the destination.”
#BARS! I’m reading this piece making the case against human exploration of #Mars, and it’s crushing my childhood dreams and also making too much sense. This line above though! Have you read the piece?
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@baratunde I thought this Kurzgesagt video did a decent job of laying out many of the difficulties of long-term habitation on Mars, though it still seems to take the attitude that it would be worthwhile on a long enough time scale.
https://youtu.be/uqKGREZs6-w
