Private space company Blue Origins founder Jeff Bezos said he wouldn’t want to live on Mars because there’s “no whiskey and no bacon”.
Huh. Sounds like Saudi Arabia with redder sand and fewer terrorist training camps.
Private space company Blue Origins founder Jeff Bezos said he wouldn’t want to live on Mars because there’s “no whiskey and no bacon”.
Huh. Sounds like Saudi Arabia with redder sand and fewer terrorist training camps.
Also, Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, In fact, it’s cold as hell. And there’s no one there to raise them if you did.
Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson dealt with this in the first book of his Mars trilogy, “Red Mars”:
“Clustered in a plaza like mussels on a rock were a group of Arabs, drinking coffee. Arabs had arrived on Mars only ten years before, but already they were a force to be reckoned with. They had a lot of money, and they had teamed up with the Swiss to build a number of towns, including this one. And they liked it on Mars. “It’s like a cold day in the Empty Quarter,” as the Saudis said. The similarity was such that Arabic words were slipping quickly into English, because Arabic had a larger vocabulary for this landscape: akaba for the steep final slopes around volcanoes, badia for the great world dunes, nefuds for deep sand, seyl for the billion-year-old dry riverbeds. . . . People were saying they might as well switch over to Arabic and have done with it.”
Robinson and I don’t agree on politics – pretty much at all – but I still thought his trilogy was very imaginative and a mighty good read.
And Mars needs women!