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Humans Living on Mars May Not Be Human for Long

Why colonists on the Red Planet are bound to become a new species. The post Humans Living on Mars May Not Be Human for Long appeared first on Nautilus.

n early 2021, ran the headline, “Mars Is a Hellhole.” The thrust of which was that—contrary to the schemes of rocket-building billionaire Elon Musk—the Red Planet is, in fact, not that great a place to hang out. Musk had announced that his visionary new rocket would fly within a week, and the science writer Shannon Stirone saw the opportunity to skewer SpaceX’s mission and Musk’s obsession to . “It is not in the. “Mars will kill you.”

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