A funny story about how SpaceX dealt with clandestine toilet issues on the recent Micturation 4 flight. This kind of thing is SpaceX's kryptonite—if you look at what breaks on ISS, it's a slog of unglamorous maintenance issues with no cool engineering fixhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/science/spacex-toilet-nasa.html …
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false. many scenarios in which a Mars pop would survive in that case. and they involve having reached the point of local sustainability or at least non-Earth dependence. but to reach that point we can pass thru early phases where might not be & evolve/iterate. historical examples
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also in my orig comment I said "sustainably" and then in your reply you said "colony", which implies dependence. ie. you made a straw man argument
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a self-sufficient Mars settlement is literally impossible unless you've developed the ability to easily move asteroids around. in which case you hardly need an "in case of asteroid impact" backup population
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