{"id":409,"date":"2012-10-04T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/10\/04\/settling-mars-a-preview-of-the-upcoming-documentary\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:45:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:45:43","slug":"settling-mars-a-preview-of-the-upcoming-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/10\/04\/settling-mars-a-preview-of-the-upcoming-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Settling Mars&quot; | A Preview of the Upcoming Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>(we <i>really<\/i> need to <span>STOP USING THE TERM &#8220;COLONIZE&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; please!)<\/p>\n<div>Also, it is important to note that without several decades of\u00a0rudimentary, relatively easy terraforming,\u00a0early settlements will not look like the image above. Surface solar and cosmic radiation will force early settlements underground (either buried beneath several meters of soil or tunneled into mountainsides). \u00a0Space activists favoring other destinations than Mars often deride such artists concepts as &#8220;fantasy&#8221;&#8230;the most realistic depictions of early settlements show only airlocks and telerobots on the surface, with cross-sections of extensive subsurface environments. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(we really need to STOP USING THE TERM &#8220;COLONIZE&#8221;\u00a0&#8211; please!) Also, it is important to note that without several decades of\u00a0rudimentary, relatively easy terraforming,\u00a0early settlements will not look like the image above. Surface solar and cosmic radiation will force early settlements underground (either buried beneath several meters of soil or tunneled into mountainsides). \u00a0Space activists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,56,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-zubrin","category-inspirational-vids","category-why-we-must-settle-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}