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In addition the surface of Mars has lots of radiation which would require you to live under some sort of shielding or in a cave. >The average radiation level o

In addition the surface of Mars has lots of radiation which would require you to live under some sort of shielding or in a cave. >The average radiation level on Mars is 24–30 rads (240–300 mSv) per year, which is 40–50 times higher than Earth's. Everything on Mars is designed to kill you. I don’t understand the appeal either except for ultra rich on earth that are looking for a new exclusive neighborhood to move into, away from the serfs funding it.

pyrale 2y ago
Earth is boring, Mars is exciting. Why solve the immediately available, mundane and sometimes hard issues we have on earth, rather than to entertain one's intellect in a purely theoretic grapple with the most interesting few of the distant problems we'd have on Mars?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > Why solve the immediately available, mundane and sometimes hard issues we have on earth, rather than to entertain one's intellect in a purely theoretic grapple with the most interesting few of the distant problems we'd have on Mars? Because Earth is boring, Mars is exciting. More pointedly: on Earth you’re fixing problems amidst a tightly-regulated status quo. On Mars you’re pioneering. We have way more people in the computer sciences than stewardship roles because human nature prefers to explore.
- redundantly 2y ago
  > Earth is boring, Mars is exciting. Why solve the immediately available, mundane and sometimes hard issues we have on earth Why must they be mutually exclusive? The space race that started seven decades ago brought immense benefits to humanity as a whole. Any progress made in the pursuit of colonizing Mars would undoubtedly have positive repercussions for us Earthlings.