[dcd0101]

Maybe there's an error in the authors assumption that we'd seriously try to evacuate the planet. I've always assumed that the point of colonizing Mars is just to have an off-world colony that's also like an ark. At least at first.

[putsteadywere]

Agreed. I read a lot of science fiction and I can't even think of a novel for adults where they would insinuate that something so stupid was possible.

[kseistrup]

In Neal Stephenson's ‘Seveneves’ they actually do evacuate Earth and live in space for thousands of years until Earth becomes habitable again ⌘ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves