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

by Kelly Weinersmith

“If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, He would have given man a Moon.”

We’ve seen repeated claims that an advantage of space stations will be the ability to completely control things like temperature, light, and weather. This sounds compelling until you realize it’s also a thing that happens in, like, buildings.

With this in mind, one design expert proposed something resembling cloaks over the space suits. Cheap, simple, and everyone looks like a Jedi.

“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!”

Our ability to harm ourselves vastly outweighs our ability to protect ourselves.

Going to the stars will not make us wise. We have to become wise if we want to go to the stars.