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Uh, we do know what Mars is like. Humans have been sending probes to Mars for decades. It’s cold, toxic, showered with radiation, and devoid of most things need
by gregjor 5y ago
Uh, we do know what Mars is like. Humans have been sending probes to Mars for decades. It’s cold, toxic, showered with radiation, and devoid of most things needed to support life, at least life as we know it on this planet. The probes communicate with Earth, that’s how we know what they discovered.
- smt88 5y ago> Uh, we do know what Mars is like. Humans have been sending probes to Mars for decades. It’s cold, toxic, showered with radiation, and devoid of most things needed to support life, at least life as we know it on this planet. I assumed OP's question was: what would motivate you to move to a habitable Mars? Instead, it seems you interpreted it as: what would motivate you to commit the most expensive suicide in history by traveling to an uninhabitable Mars? More seriously: for the question to make any sense at all, there has to be a degree of habitability when reaching Mars. It's not today's habitability (which is "not at all") so it must be some time in a fictional future. OP didn't specify what future they were imagining, so the question is nonsense and up for wild interpretation.
- gregjor 5y agoExactly. The question is phrased as if moving to Mars is a real option, or will be soon. If one believes the wild predictions from Elon Musk, and that he can work around some massive issues with physics and biology and logistics, and that "terraforming" is a real thing humans can do, then that future habitable Mars might seem like a possibility in the lifetimes of people alive today. It's probably not.