Surviving Mars

Oh Man, Look At Those Cavemen Go

- Martin Kitts

It may just be a radioactive dustbowl, 140 million miles from the nearest breathable atmosphere, but Mars exerts an irresistible pull on Earth’s dreamers. Could people ever live there? Would a future colony seriously have a casino?

There’s a lot of work to be done before the first colonists can move in. Solar panels and wind turbines must be set up to power the machinery that extracts water and oxygen from the Martian environment. Raw materials must be processed, and miles of pipelines and electrical cables must be laid to connect everything together.