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# space
Someone should tell Elon Musk that a nuclear bombardment of Mars into habitability won't be much of a shortcut.
# space
Astronauts will go stir crazy and get cabin fever on interplanetary missions. And it will have to be every mission planner's job to keep them sane and entertained.
# space
As far as colonization ideas go, Mars One is a terrible one.
# space
Just how realistic is Elon Musk's 80,000 person outpost on Mars given enough time and money?
# space
All you need to know about how hard it is to land on Mars is that rocket scientists call it "seven minutes of terror."
# space
Mars should have some sort of live according to all the evidence we've gathered so far. But do we really know for what we're looking?
# space
If we're going to go to Mars and do it right, we should be ready for the price tag.
# space
A study says that more of Mars than Earth should be hospitable to life. But the data on which this conclusion is based is incomplete.
# astrobiology
An old variant of the ancient alien theory says that Phobos isn't a moon, but an abandoned spaceship. It's a surprisingly possible, if unlikely, idea.