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What Elon Musk Won’t Tell You About Settling Mars

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Zach Weinersmith on the truth about space colonies.

Paris Marx

March 28, 2024

Elon Musk speaks at a news conference after the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in March 2019.(Mike Blake / Reuters)

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What Elon Musk Won’t Tell You About Settling Mars w/ Zach Weinersmith | Tech Won’t Save Us
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On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Zach Weinersmith to discuss the impracticalities of space colonies some interested parties keep forgetting to mention.

Zach Weinersmith co-wrote A City On Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? with Kelly Weinersmith. He also makes the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Zach Weinersmith to discuss the impracticalities of space colonies some interested parties keep forgetting to mention.

Zach Weinersmith cowrote A City On Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? with Kelly Weinersmith. He also makes the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic.

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How Effective is Australia’s Social Media Age Limit? w/ Cam Wilson | Tech Won’t Save Us
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Paris Marx is joined by Cam Wilson to discuss the new social media age limit in Australia, including how successful the rollout has been so far and the missed opportunities of taking a more nuanced regulatory approach.

Cam Wilson is an associate editor at ⁠Crikey⁠ and writes ⁠The Sizzle⁠ newsletter. He’s a co-author of Conspiracy Nation: Exposing the Dangerous World of Australian Conspiracy Theories.

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Paris MarxParis Marx is a tech critic and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.


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