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When we’ll actually move to Mars
If you’re anything like Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, the idea of a mass human migration to space is exciting but, well, a little flawed. As they say in their new book, A City on Mars: “An Earth with climate change and nuclear war and, like, zombies and werewolves is still a way better place than Mars.”
In this episode, we speak to Kelly about why we’re not likely to see billionaires rocketing off to Mars-based bunkers, what we might eat when we live in space, and how close we really are to moving to Mars.
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