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Thanks for the article! I have always been curious if it’s possible to grow food like we saw in the movie Martian. I believe based on your findings it’s impossible:)

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I dream about one day it will be a common Anthropogenic approach of to cultivate exoplanets like Mars in solar system and beyond of it!!!

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Perhaps the problem of providing a sufficient amount of electricity can be solved using the "one-time" Starship. In the standard hull of the Starship there is only one cargo - a nuclear reactor. Similar technologies are used on submarines and icebreakers. This Starship model makes its only flight and landing on Mars, where it becomes the energy core of the future city. Another alternative is to grow food in an orbital station in Mars' orbit. In this case, the pioneers will have to use soil from Phobos or Deimos

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