From StarTalk.

In this conversation, Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks with Adam Becker, alongside co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, about the realistic challenges of human missions to Mars, pushing back against optimistic claims of large-scale colonization by mid-century. The discussion focuses on radiation exposure, lack of atmospheric and magnetic shielding, communication delays, life-support logistics, toxic Martian soil, and why Mars missions are fundamentally more dangerous and complex than the International Space Station or even the Moon.

From ‘What Billionaire Tech CEOs Get Wrong About The Future, with Adam Becker’: https://youtu.be/o6UdRXloqGc?si=IaaCnDsqssOAEjnX

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