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Letter: Mars is a hellscape well worth avoiding (2)

Published 11 June 2025

From Rayson Lorrey, Rochester, Minnesota, US

You rightly threw cold water on the romanticism of colonising Mars. Sci-fi offering The Expanse was mentioned as a tonic to such visions. Its Martian colonists sensibly began to flee the Red Planet as soon as green worlds became available (thanks to alien tech). Why abandon our own green world for a hellscape?

Issue no. 3547 published 14 June 2025

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