Although I agree that Mars will be extremely difficult to colonise and I believe that we should be focusing on the ball that we currently live on before looking at another but there's some pretty big factual mistakes in that article, which make me doubt the rest of the information.
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Here is a list of the plant-life that grows there: Nothing. Here is a list of all the animals that reproduce there: None."
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the South Pole simply cannot support complex life. It is too cold, and its relationship with sunlight too erratic, for living things to sustain themselves there."
Clearly forgot several species of Penguins, about a dozen seal species, Walrus, and many bird species.
There is a fair amount of research outside of SpaceX on the issue of how to handle the radiation. It's not just one of Elons wet dreams.
On Aug. 7, 1972, in the heart of the Apollo era, an enormous solar flare exploded from the sun’s atmosphere. Along with a gigantic burst of light in nearly
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