James Ball

What would life on Mars actually look like?

It would need more than 100 million people to make it viable for a start – living in airlocked, subterranean bases, producing food and oxygen in artificially-lit greenhouses

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issue 02 December 2023

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

    Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

    Penguin, pp. 448, £25

Just as extreme altitudes have notable effects on the human body and mind, so too does extreme wealth seem to have a particular effect on psychology. Or at least that’s how it appears when you look at the shared ambition of two of the world’s most prominent billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

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