Mars Attacks...Earth: Implications of Space Colonization?

The world, as we know it today, depends on precious metals such as platinum and gold that, beyond their ornamental application, are used to create different components present in all our phones and electronic devices; or nickel and cobalt, basic for catalyst technology and fuel cells, present in our vehicles and in the so fashionable electric cars. The main problem of all of them, apart from being rare and difficult to extract, is that they exis…

Mars Attacks...Earth: Implications of Space Colonization?

It’s a wait-a-minute moment as featured in a new issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk’s plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth” is the work of Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith, adapted from their book A City on MarsCan we settle space, should we settle space, and have we […]