Wow, so a couple people who breathlessly believed the hype and would have been at risk of being part of the first wave of settlers if they lived maybe 100 years from now did a shred of research about what colonization literally is and is like, and realized that it's so much more complicated and worse than the state-sponsored story about what colonization looks like, and that doing that all over again in space would be so much more complicated and in many ways worse than on Earth, and the upshot of the story of the book is that these people only just now learned anything about this subject, and I'm supposed to want to give them THIRTY DOLLARS for the privilege of reading what amounts to a college-level book report that doesn't offer anything that hasn't been extensively reported and discussed already?

Can I write entire books about ridiculously uncontroversial things and charge more than thirty bucks for it, too?

I had some Elon-stan dude being adamant that it would be safer to colonize Mars because what if the apocalypse happened on Earth? I asked him what an event like that would look like and he said a giant asteroid. I linked him to a wiki page outlining major crater impacts on Mars to get him started and he never responded. I'd like to think that he learned a valuable lesson in astronomy but I can never be too sure.

I don't wanna go to Mars

What kind of brainwashed idiot does

It's all a lab rat life in jars

They branded the dream of ages