Space Time

The ‘Escape to Mars’ Plan Has a Fatal Flaw

Elon Musk and other futurists are missing something big

Shannon Stirone
OneZero
Published in
5 min readNov 13, 2018
Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty

MMars, our neighboring red dot, has been the focus of human exploration for hundreds of years. Science fiction writers, scientists, and explorers alike have spent decades imagining what life would be like if humankind could pick up and move there. Never mind…

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