Colonizing Mars?

Question

Does anyone agree that we should colonizing and learning how to survive on mars? I mean this could be a big step for us. And if you dont agree then why? Many scientists have said that if we start now we could be able to make it vegetated in 10,000 years or so thus creating life.

Thoughts? Oppinions?

my oppion-
ok all this stuff about helping our earth we live in is all right, but come on people this could eliminate alot of that and if dont start that now then all those problems wont matter when were all dead, we need to start now while our planet is still young (half way through its life) if we can accomplish this who knows how far it can take us.. i think this well worth the money to spend.

my oppinion-
ok all this stuff about helping our earth we live in is all right, but come on people this could eliminate alot of that and if dont start that now then all those problems wont matter when were all dead, we need to start now while our planet is still young (half way through its life) if we can accomplish this who knows how far it can take us.. i think this well worth the money to spend.

Answer 1

that might be a big step for us. maybe if we manage to colonize Mars, we can colonize other planets further away and delay the extinction of humans and spread humans around. And if Earth ends up intoxicated, it serves as a lesson for other human inhabited planets and humans won't be completely wiped out.

Answer 2

You need an atmosphere to be able to live on a planet. Mars hardly has one and even if you were able to give the planet back the atmosphere it once had it wouldn´t remain. It would drift off into space for mars is too small with too little gravity to hold onto an atmosphere. So terraforming mars is a pointless effort. You would have better luck terraforming venus. Venus atleast has an atmosphere. You just need to cool it down a bit...

And many of the conflicts on earth are due to earth being overpopulated. Sure we could make vast expanses of land, that are now pretty much wastelands, completely livable. No human needs to starve. The technology is simple but politics makes it impossible. You just can´t escape the fact that there are too many people wanting to live in the same place. But suppose humans go off to live on other worlds, colonizing them. How pathetic will not human conflict appear when we realize just how many inhabitable world there are? "We want our own country!" "Here. Have a GALAXY! On the house."

Answer 3

Ye thats would be great, we should start by building large domes that we can live in :D It would take billions of years in order to change the atmosphere, but its worth a try. We need to do things like this, or we will never understand anything about space and other planets. Hmm, some genius needs to create a super fast space shuttle that can get into other solar systems, mayb other galaxies, but thats pretty hard to do.. anyway, ye, we need to create this new shuttle n go and find some new life on other planets :D

Answer 4

It has taken over 6 years for anyone to try and stop all the needless death in the Sudan, and fighting has been going on in the Middle East in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine for as long as I can remember. How can you possibly suggest that we should send humans that can't solve their own society's problems off on a voyage to another planet to set up another colony there when we canot live in peace on the planet where we live right now...

The money such a voyage might cost would be far better spent trying to feed starving peoples around the world right now than using it to send a crew of XX space travelers to a distant planet.

Just take a serious look at Palestine for a moment.
Then review the situation in the Sudan.
Ask yourself how many people in the world live in Poverty.
And you want to spend billions to make a trip to Mars?
Would you like to pay for the War in Iraq first and get that over with before you make this trip?

Answer 5

You speak of terraforming Mars, which by tomorrow's technology might be far quicker than the 10,000 years you alluded to. However, we wouldn't be 'creating' in the strictest sense of the word. We would likely bring seed stock up there from Earth, or cloned critters. It is possible that an edible bacterium might soon be 'invented' that would thrive on Mars in today's condition there!

We will be colonizing Mars before the year 2100 most assuredly. This is a promising future for us and perhaps we could banish war on the planet of War.

for good reading on colonizing you might want to read the wonderful sci-fi by R.A.Heinlen called 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'

Answer 6

certainly there have already been everlasting settlements in Antarctica and that i've got faith that is stated as Esperanza it particularly is a factor of the Argentina presence interior the continent. city encompass fifty 5 citizens. explanation why that is perplexing to colonize Antarctica is by using the tough residing circumstances. human beings do no longer desire to stay in intense chilly climate it particularly is why no longer diverse human beings stay there. it is likewise very high priced to colonize Antarctica because of the fact farming and mining organic aspects is very perplexing and as a result each and every thing must be imported. explanation why individuals are extra fascinated in colonizing Mars is by using the fact the aptitude of organic aspects Mars have.

Answer 7

considering the way things are going here on earth with global warming and such, i kinda doubt that we'll last another 10,000 years to see Mars vegitated. It sounds like an interesting idea, but i'd be very disappointed to see us destroy another planet in our solar system besides our own. I'm sure that the scientists know what they're doing, but i just can't get over the fact that Mars is very cold. Mars just doesn't sound like a very good idea to me. But then again, what other planet would? Earth is ideal.
If we can land a shuttle or something with people on Mars, then maybe i'd rethink my opinion.

Answer 8

That is a great idea however economics get in the way. It takes millions of dollars for each launch to send the space shuttle up and it will only hold 6 people. It will take at least 6 months one way with modern rockets to make the trip. We as humans don't adjust well to the weightless of space.

Answer 9

Hmmm, not much there really. I think the money involved in colonizing Mars would be better spent on:
1. Raising the standards of living in 3rd World Countries.
2. Continuing research into genetics/tissue cloning/embryionic stems cells etc for the purpose of curing diseases/ailments the world over.
3. Removing our dependence on oil and replacing it with a sustainable, renewable source that's cost effective.
4. Educating the majority of citizens in the most powerful nation on Earth about the rest of the planet in order to improve their Foreign Affairs.

However, I'm a space travel fan, and love Science Fiction, so in addition to spending the money on our planet's problems, I'd also say:
5. I think they should spend the money on coming up with a means of extra-solar travel. Surely if enough money & brains were put into the mix, we could have episodes of Mythbusters dedicated to busting all of Einsteins (and other noted dead Physicists) theories, and perhaps acheive the goal of faster than light travel (avoiding relativity issues at the same time).

Answer 10

its a case of easier said than done...truly speaking we r not as of yet technically as proficient to start colonising mars as we would need to be to do this... we r after all humans and we havn't reached the stage, where our bodies could withstand the conditions of even reaching to mars, let alone living their. threre is so much radiation in the way, that we probably would die with cancer before we ever reached mars... our space shuttles r not strong enough, not fast enough to make it all possible as yet. moreover the biggest hurdle is how do we start the process of colonising? first we need a base on mars, where future travellers could stay. but who or how to build this base? the raw materials required to do this, the money, the human resource....chances r that we would end up destroying more of our present home in the hope of creating a new one, and just imagine wat might happen if we do not succeed in that....we will have no home then, not even this where we hv always been....it's not a small issue, we r not dealing with countries, we r dealing with planets and there's just one for us....its too big a gamble to gamble upon...and as u mentioned it might take thousands of years...so i think it is better that we devote ourseleves completely to first take care of wat we hv...we don't realise how serious a condition we r in with our planet....if we don't act right and fast, earth might not survive more than a couple of centuries, let alone a thousand years to colonise mars