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Your comment made me even less hopeful we can colonize Mars. What are the benefits that would drive such colonization? On Earth there were rich resources dri
by JohnJamesRambo 7y ago
Your comment made me even less hopeful we can colonize Mars.
What are the benefits that would drive such colonization? On Earth there were rich resources driving human expansion into new areas. This Mars expansion would be like humans repeatedly trying to live in the Atacama desert but orders of magnitude even more harsh. Mars is constantly trying to kill you, and is fantastically expensive due to the distance to Mars and cost to transport things there. What reason would we have to make us attempt it?
- pvaldes 7y ago> Mars is constantly trying to kill you, And the Earth could be trying to do the same in 100 years.
- cglace 7y agoYou believe earth and mars will be on par in terms of habitability in 100 years? If I were confident I would live that long I would take that bet.
- Udik 7y agoUnless you're thinking of some cosmic catastrophe- and a much worse one than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs-, there is no comparison whatsoever between any disaster that can happen on Earth and the environmental conditions on Mars.
- ColanR 7y agoHonestly? Some megacorp that discovered a profitable reason to be up there could (and probably would) make the whole thing happen. They would have the motivation, and the colonists would be glad for the excuse to get up there.