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Casey Handmer
Personal blog · caseyexaustralia.blogspot.comsciencehardware
Casey Handmer writes Casey ex Australia, a personal blog at caseyexaustralia.blogspot.com about science and hardware. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Casey Handmer's blog for its posts on Mars colonization, terraforming and space economics, including a response to a 2018 Nature paper on Martian CO2 reserves. One commenter calls him excellent.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This blog has been moved to blog.caseyhandmer.com . Posts here are no longer updated.
What Hacker News says?
Here’s an article on that: http://caseyexaustralia.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-to-industri...
Comment linking /2018/09/how-to-industrialize-mars.html?m=1
on “Alone in a Crowded Milky Way”Submitted Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of Mars as a story · 101 points
HN discussionThe excellent Casey Handmer covers some of the new facts that have come to light since this paper was written. > Last week, a Nature paper ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0529-6 ) was published by Jakosky and Edwards arguing that, based on data from more recent orbiters, the total near-surface reserves of CO2 are much too low to built up the atmosphere enough for terraforming. What a bummer! http://case…
Comment linking /2018/08/atmospheres-and-terraforming_5.html
on “The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization (1998)”Submitted A roadmap to an industrially self-sufficient Mars base in the minimum time as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of Mars as a story · 2 points
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