Review: A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Any time anyone on the news or a podcast talks about us founding a colony on Mars, you should hand them this book. Basically it is a ridiculous thing to say on any timescale that the people currently advocating it would want. Zach and Kelly go through all the reasons why we are NOWHERE near the level of tech we would need for this to work. (Also, it’s on bad legal ground and would probably lead to war)

Entertaining to read, peppered with funny illustrations, if you’re a space geek, you should definitely check this out.

• Mars
• Space-Settlement