Do you think we will ever live on planet mars????

Question

there was a new discovery today water was found on mars and this could lead us in eventually living on this red planet. Whats your thoughts????

Answer 1

Humans share the colonizing habit with all terrestrial life. It goes all the way down the evolutionary chain to lichen. Life will, and should, try to live in as many places as it can.

A lot of people seem to regard humanity as a cancer. Certainly the capitalist, corporate, fractional-reserve-banking economic system makes humans behave like a cancer. But our proper relation to the rest of the universe, really, is the same as that which enzymes have to us. Intelligent life enables quick progress in creating ordered structures that nature would otherwise need billions of years to evolve in its previous blind fashion.

The present period is one in which intelligence is trying various methods of self-organization. The motives for choosing the methods, unfortunately, are not those of a "higher consciousness" aiming at the most auspicious result. (There was one exception, and the country where it occurred was destroyed.) Mistakes are being made, therefore, and it's possible that one of those mistakes might make us extinct.

If that happens, then nature will try again, at some other time in some other place, to do what we failed to do. But the life that succeeds will be the life that spreads, after having solved the problems pertaining to intelligent self-control and longterm eugenic maintenance, which mostly means finding the right kinds of culture and of government.

Some forms of government are better than others, and some cultures are also better than others. Better, I mean, from nature's point of view; adaptable, yet already in possession of the ways that work in the greatest number of circumstances, and yet the least prone to wobble into some failure mode: e.g. tragedy of the commons, the despoiling of the world, etc.

One of the aims must be to value the longterm, the steady state, the result from the perspective of eternity, more highly than the needs of those alive at the present moment. And that means, if it comes down to a choice of either feeding the hungry or colonizing Mars, then GO TO MARS and let the hungry perish.

Answer 2

I would so much so love to live on Mars or any other planet that is capable for us to live on. I think it would be an awesome experience to explore space like that. And it is possible that our population may become so great that we have to move to another planet or even the moon.
But there are some problems. Like mars doesn't have much of an atmosphere, so no oxygen to breath. Can you imagine living indoors for there rest of you're life. Only going out once in a while. Plus, on the dark side of the moon( when it rotates around, or night) gets to around ( off the top of my head) -50 degrees. Only to get up to about 50 degrees on the day side.
Also, there are very sever wind storms like that of a tornado or hurricane. So that can pose a pretty large threat.

I hope that helps and gets you thinking.

Answer 3

Wow!

So much negativism in the answers.

There will be poor among you always, said a Jewish carpenter about 200 years ago. And I say charity begins at home; don't count on the government to fix the problem, as more than half of what they spend to feed the poor will be lost and wasted.

Why do we have to chose between feeding the poor and going to Mars? Lets do both. Help the poor for the short term, because it is the ethical thing to do. AND colonize Mars, because that is also the ethical thing to do, for the long term survival of our species.

Answer 4

NASA has not left Earth's orbit for well over 15 years, and has been promising that we could well make the trip to Mars within the next 10 years, which was back in 1990, so perhaps not for the next 50 years at least. For now, they are just content with blowing wind and wasting tax payer money.

I don't get hyped up with what scientists say about Mars anymore, you always know within 6 months, they will retract anything they say and always say they were embarassed for publiclly releasing the information.

Answer 5

Yes, I do. Perhaps not in our lifetime, though I expect we or the chinese will have a permanent lunar colony within the next 30 years.

To actually live on mars we will need to redesign ourselves substantially. But it should be possible, within just a few centuries. I would expect permanent human bases on Mars by 2300. We will probably colonize Ceres before then.

Answer 6

No.

I'm not a scientist, but my belief is that just because water was found on Mars does not mean that it's hospitable for human life.

If we would take care of Earth instead of continuing to destroy it, we wouldn't need to look for other planets to live.

Answer 7

well considering the extremophile found in calfornia witch is based on arsenic(a deadly poison) not phasphoric wich is based on everything on earth i guess it is possible considering the extrememofiles abilities (like not breathing air) and breathing other stuff yes it might be able to ,but considrering the fact that it would take 100's no 1000's of years to evolve so you would not see it but of course it might already be there, also if extremmophiles can evolve to arsinic y not something like methanne and actually live on venus or jupiter

Answer 8

after they find a way .to develop Lasers from space.?or solar energy directed at the poles.?to melt the vast amount of water that will make the oceans an estimated 35 feet deep.planet wide except for the mountains.with oceans they will have ships Built to take people on cruises and will have floating cities & land cities and mining operatians,and tourist and gambling cities built ,and someone WILL find a way to make air by seeding the oceans with microscopic life as here in our oceans is the way air is made for us to breath..and we will colonize one day Mars, my favorite planet
That will be Great!!
Its such a shame what were doing to this world, killing off species and polluting.

Answer 9

I don't think we should be looking at other planets but look after the planet we already we have. If it is possible, then we should be thankful and appreciate it than make it the same as the Earth.

Answer 10

It would be a miracle to live there, since the planet is 90% carbon dioxide.
I think it is all a waste of tax payers dollars, we should be feeding the world, instead of going into space.