What would life be like on Mars?

Question

Imagine..if there was a sci-fci scenario..and the whole of mankind would have to evacuate there??

How would we live?? How could we be able to breathe the air?? How could we cope with the climate?? How could we grow crops??? What about gravity??


Would a civilisation..and culture develop on Mars... What about our old civilisations???


Please let..your imaginations run wild :-)))) But I placed it in the science section....so sceintific explanation are aways welcome!!

Answer 1

First we would need a secure dome to live in, to retain the air we need to breathe, and a way of removing the carbon-dioxide from it - plants are good at this - and we would need to keep the dome heated, as Mars' warmest day is colder than Earths' coldest, I remember reading. We would have to use hydroponics to grow food, and meat would be a luxury of the past. Expect an awful bland diet for years. Gravity is something like 2/3rds of ours, so our activity in the dome would be pretty easy, but you'd need to learn how to sprint again, if you were into running, and imagine the hundred metres being run in not just under ten seconds, but perhaps six! Mars would actually be a great place for the elderly to retire to - less fall injuries, less heart stress. Children born on Mars would grow very tall, perhaps damaging them - tall has its' downsides for humans, particularly back and circulatory troubles. Nuclear bombs detonated out on the Martian plains would generate enough heat to release the water scientists tend to agree is frozen in there, in the soil and rock, and if large panels of black material were laid out, their albedo would catch and retain heat. We need a thick, oxygen rich atmosphere. Mars' is very thin, and with little oxygen. Such 'Terra-forming' (making Earth-like) would be a huge undertaking.
So there you are, stuck in your dome, bored, hurt yourself badly from running at 40mph, vegetarian, with nine-foot tall kids, and Grandpa is 168. Perhaps death would be preferable...

Answer 2

If we could live on Mars it would be with the utmost difficulty. At one time Mars DID have life, just like Earth. Some really crazy God stuff happened though, and the entire planet was smited into what it is now. A massive electric commet swung by Mars and the planet discharged itself, lifting the top 6000 feet of elevation off of Mars and crushing the southern hemisphere with lightning bolts. I explain it here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aqw_TgBoYkIquoRDnqPCrj7sy6IX?qid=20060619194732AAwm9Mf

Before the massive electric comet (Venus) zapped Mars it zapped what used to be the 5th planet but is now the asteroid belt. Venus was a lot more charged at the time and when it connected the planet exploded so that it could give all the electrons it had to Venus. When Venus passed by Mars it only really really zapped the Hell out of the planet. When Venus passed by Earth it was even weaker still, and only made our polar ice caps and gave our planet its wobble.

**Edit: Oh and I don't know if I have everything about Venus in that link. Basically it used to be called the hairy planet, the smoky planet, the bearded planet. People worshipped it and made sacrifices, hoping to appease it. When Kronos (Saturn) swallowed all his children (the Greek Gods, who were also associated with other planets) Kronos' wife tricked him into swallowing a rock wrapped in fur (sound familiar?) and he threw them all back up. These people were witnessing some crazy planet stuff, that's for sure.**

Answer 3

All I can offer is this tidbit. If you got pregnant on Mars, of course with a provided atmosphere, just the difference in gravity, would influence the development of your unborn child, so your child would not be able to visit his mothers home planet Earth because the Earth's atmosphere would crush it to death. You see the atm on Mars is lighter because the Planet is smaller. The atm on Earth is greater becasue the planet is larger, making things just so. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Desolate, absence of interesting features, places, no good resources. Better to bet our energies on finding cyrogenic technologies and hi speed interstellar drives for more colonizable locations.

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Answer 5

living on a mars bar would be cool for a few hours but after a while i imagine it to become quite sickly

Answer 6

:-) I take it you watched Total Recall last night aswell

Answer 7

peace but sheltered

Answer 8

you would die form there being to oxygen

Answer 9

very sheltered