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What’s the Bare Minimum Number of People for a Mars Habitat? (www.universetoday.com)

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A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help researchers better understand the appropriate conditions …

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[-] supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

Well that's a reason.

At the moment with current technology, colonising other planets in the solar system is unsustainable without a lot of effort from earth so I doubt anything will come out of it in the near term.

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