Has anyone had sex in space?

We disagree about this.

All right, so I will concede that it's complicated.

I still think someone is heads.

How could you, could you pass up the chance right?

I'm Doolan Thuris and this is Atlas Obscura a celebration of the world's

strange incredible and wondrous places.

Today we are leaving this world and considering what might happen in another.

I'm talking about Mars, the red Planet. You know, it's been the domain of sci-fi for decades and decades.

But it's also increasingly the domain of the headlines.

What would it be like to actually try and live there?

As the space industry grows, that question becomes worth asking in a real way.

Can we get there? Could we live there? Could we stay there really actually?

Married couple and co-authors, Kelly and Zach Wienersmith, consider this question from every possible angle in their recent book, A City on

Mars. Can we settle space? Should we settle space? And have we really thought this through?

They are our guest today, and together we will consider

what it would take to prepare for launch

and actually stay on another planet. Why is Mars? Like, why is that the planet that everyone ends up focusing on?

You know, Musk is excited about Mars as a place where you could have a backup for humanity.

So like, yes, the moon is close and it's a great place to learn about stuff, but it has no atmosphere

at all. There's hardly any carbon, so it's going and we're carbon-based life

forms, so that's going to make, you know, gardening really difficult. It has much lower

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