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The invisible problem with sending people to Mars - Getting to Mars will be easy. It’s the whole ‘living there’ part that we haven’t figured out. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I just didn't want to pretend it was an hour. Response time would definitely be dependent on your investment, the urgency of the situation, etc, but even on the longer end of the spectrum, there are a lot of failures you are able to recover from that you couldn't on Mars. "This critical component we will die without is degrading 1% per week" gives you plenty of time to solve the problem on the moon and no chance in hell on Mars.