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This is no cave: Humans will never colonize Mars (ghostofcarnot.substack.com)
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Three big, basic facts about Mars will render it forever out of reach for permanent human settlement. Read more about them on Substack.

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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 4 points 6 days ago

Interesting that they did not mention nitrogen - I thought the extremely low abundance of which would make permanent habitation very challenging without perfect recycling and/or imports to maintain closecd off biospheres.