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I am often thinking about food, it will likely be incredibly bland and not very varied. Plus you'll spend probably most of your time indoors. You won't ever lay

by seren 9y ago

I am often thinking about food, it will likely be incredibly bland and not very varied. Plus you'll spend probably most of your time indoors. You won't ever lay on a beach listening to the sounds of the wave, or walk on dry leaves in a forest anymore.

wyager 9y ago
There are a huge number of humans on earth who spend their lives in urban centers and also never have those experiences. Speculating about the quality of food on mars is pointless; we have no idea how that will work. If you can afford regular equipment shipments to mars (which is probably what a mars colony will require with near-future tech), it would probably make a lot of sense to ship up a bunch of spices. They have a very high utility/weight ratio, which is why they were the impetus for the foundation of so many historical colonies.
- munificent 9y ago
  > There are a huge number of humans on earth who spend their lives in urban centers and also never have those experiences. Those people can and do at least go to parks. A better analogy is that it would be like living in an underground bunker on Death Valley, with periodic excursions out to the desert, while wearing a spacesuit.
  - KGIII 9y ago
    There are a few theories for getting magnetic poles going on Mars. With that, and some terraforming, and a whole lot of time, they could eventually have a breathable atmosphere. Of course this will take many hundreds of years and need a bunch of new tech. Anyway, for now, we can breathe the atmosphere when we go outside. That's not what it's like on Mars. I don't think I'd enjoy that.