58: Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, Mars Ecology, and Space Communes

What would a man-made ecosystem look like on mars? Just how complicated could it possibly be? And are the human and societal issues just as complicated? Science communicators and authors Zach and Dr. Kelly Weinersmith ask and answer all of these questions and more! Check out: A City on Mars! The Weinersmith's article on Frontier Mythology and Space The Weinersmith's paper in the journal Space Policy on Space Communes BeaWolf Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:30) Mars Ecology (00:47:28) Space Communes (01:11:59) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: The superior Weinersmith, we almost have a Doctorate majority but not quite, having a PHD doesn’t make you smarter it just makes you poor and willing to suffer, back in my day Comic-Con was only 2 pence, we only just learned about high perchlorates on mars soil, all those images of glass habitats on mars would be SO DEAD, “this doesn’t sound appealing to me… to live under the dirt”, just rinse off all your dirt how hard could it be, the engineer brain thinking “if a problem is solvable then the problem is solved”, apologies to the rotating space colony commu…