Talk:Failure of the settlement

Nice work, well expanded. It's a strange topic, in a sense. But there are a few of these pages that come from an earlier version of the site.

It it necessarily the Death of all? Wouldn't return to Earth for all be another failure mode? Less dramatic, of course.

As you mention, disappearance of mining towns happen all the time and of course don't involve any deaths. The incapacity of having healthy children on Martian land might be another failure mode. So we would never have a permanent settlement, and that's a type of failure.