Fun fact: if you wanted to keep an open-air swimming pool on the surface of Mars, you'd have to keep it heated at a temperature exactly between 0°C and 0.5°C (about 32°F). Because the atmospheric pressure on Mars is so low, water would boil if its temperature got any higher.
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I’m sure they had to “science the sh*t out of it”.
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There are a lot of details like this covered in the Mars trilogy. The economy and political system described there is ... another story.
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I can't remember what sci-fi book I read awhile back (possibly The Martian) that talked about being in space without a suit and dispelled previous assumption that you'd die instantly but instead predicted a buffer of 9 seconds or something like that. No idea what the truth is.
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The Expanse talk about it.
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