2007-07-22 12:19:09 · 12 answers · asked by foxygoldcleo 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The gravity would be 38% of Earth's gravity. The atmospheric pressure is less than 1/100th that on Earth. So, we would need to live in protected habitats shielded from harmful radiation from the sun and from the milky way. As the atmosphere mainly consists of carbon dioxide, we could extract oxygen from it as well as from the underground water.
We would need to grow plants in greenhouses and use mainly sunlight for our energy needs. Obviously, there are a lot of plans on getting to Mars and living there but personally I felt the best description of what it may be like to live on Mars was given in the fiction novel called "Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson. This book won a few awards and he has written two sequels to it called "Green Mars" and "Blue Mars" which basically depict humanity's efforts to terraform it, i.e., to make it habitable just like Earth.
2007-07-22 12:34:15 · answer #1 · answered by Future M 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, there'd be a lot of red...
But jokes aside, it could be done and just may end up being done. It would solve so many problems such as overpopulation, overall lack of space to build buildings and such, things like that. It would probably be pretty cold until we could adapt and control the climate. It sounds like a longshot but after living on Mars, anything seems doable, really. Currency would change. A lot. Mars would probably be separated into sections, countries and continents, (assuming we put oceans on Mars, I can't see why we wouldn't,) A government would be assembled, probably a Democracy but who knows at this point? Maybe it'll be a Dictatorship. The world may have to add a whole new section to their school curriculum. Mars 101. Mars History, World and Mars languages, Inter planetary geometry, maybe even Mars geography, going back to an earlier bit.
But we may never get to Mars.
Probably will be long after either of us.
2007-07-22 19:29:43 · answer #2 · answered by Sarbinargh 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It might be much more peaceful - might be able to get something done.
On Mars people have red faces - they are not embaressed they just have a complextion.
Apple trees grow much faster on Mars then they do on Earth.
Home needs protection for those devils that hang around alot.
Sun Factor lotion needs re-inventing.
BBQ's are held only when someone dies.
Suffice it to say there is no wild life on Mars - but you can have a wild life if you make it so.
If you are going up this weekend - give me a call I'll bring a sleeping bag and toothebrush.
2007-07-23 17:53:49 · answer #3 · answered by upyerjumper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rather crummy I would suspect...
1.) I hear that fishing there is the pitts.
2.) The Airports there are in such disrepair that they look like deserts to me.
3.) It is really hard to find a clean restroom on Mars when you really need one.
4.) I only put Exxon Gas into my car and I don't think they have many Exxon Gas Stations on Mars yet.
5.) I have never seen any good looking women from Mars.
6.) Satellite and Cable TV on Mars really sucks.
2007-07-23 03:05:51 · answer #4 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well we can't live on mars the way it is, so mars would have to be different. If people wanted to colonize mars in the near future, though, it'd probably be a lot like Total Recall, except without the aliens and mutants, and it has less gravity (I think like 2/3, but don't quote me on that)
2007-07-22 19:23:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well if you look up into the night sky you would see two moons. They would look like this except they wouldn't be moving this fast. It would take several hours If you were around the equator you would be in a dust storm with little light, but since the fine particles are high in the atmosphere it may just be unusally dark.
2007-07-22 19:44:14 · answer #6 · answered by alints_2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would live underground. the storms on Mars last for weeks, and have over 100 mph winds.
All food would be grown underground, ground temperature outside vary from -127C to 27C, (as observed by the Viking lander).
And you would have to make all your own water and oxygen.
I don't think it would be fun!
2007-07-22 19:30:28 · answer #7 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well,it would be cold.The temperture would drop below -100 degrees F.There would be no plants,and the only reason the planet is red is because of the rust in the rocks.So,your shoes would have rust stains everytine you walk outside.Water would be scarce unless you melt water ice underground or go to the poles.I'd say it would be boring.
2007-07-22 19:26:15 · answer #8 · answered by TI-452 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats why we need to get to Mars.
2007-07-22 19:26:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe we lived there already but came to earth cause we destroyed mars already .
2007-07-22 19:24:53 · answer #10 · answered by SEAN I 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋