Would you colonize Mars?

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Excerpt from the Mars Wikipedia page:

Manned Mars exploration by the United States has been explicitly identified as a long-term goal in the Vision for Space Exploration announced in 2004 by the then US President George W. Bush. NASA and Lockheed Martin have begun work on the Orion spacecraft, formerly the Crew Exploration Vehicle, which is currently scheduled to send a human expedition to Earth's moon by 2020 as a stepping stone to an expedition to Mars thereafter. On September 28, 2007, NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin stated that NASA aims to put a man on Mars by 2037.

ESA hopes to land humans on Mars between 2030 and 2035. This will be preceded by successively larger probes, starting with the launch of the ExoMars probe and a Mars Sample Return Mission.

Mars Direct, an extremely low-cost human mission proposed by Bob Zubrin, a founder of the Mars Society, uses heavy-lift Saturn V class rockets, such as the Space X Falcon 9, or, the Ares V, to skip orbital construction, LEO rendezvous, and lunar fuel depots. A modified proposal, called "Mars to Stay", involves not returning the first immigrant/explorers immediately, if ever. Dean Unick has suggested the cost of sending a four to six person team is one fifth to one tenth the cost of returning that same four to six person team; twenty settlers could be sent for the cost of returning four.

So, what do you think? Would you emigrate the planet Earth to live on Mars, if it became a viable option within your lifetime?

I know I would personally. It would be like an opportunity to rewrite the world - to break free of everything about human society and culture, and start again from scratch. I think it would be incredibly freeing.

What about you? Do those red deserts hold any appeal to you?

 

[NeutralDrow]

No. All my stuff is here on Earth, and I'm not particularly interested in abandoning it. I'm not all that adventurous when there's no escape clause.

 

[El Poncho]

No I wouldn't, oh look red sand, and more red sand ooo a redish orange sand that made my day.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Although it may be fun at first, the internet and anime is on Earth, so this is where I stay.
until they start giving out free augmentics and such.

 

[Carboncrown]

Depends, can i access the internet from there?

 

[SirDoom]

Actually, a world free of societies influences on what is right and wrong would be great. It could be a new opportunity to create a society that Earth can't support in it's current state. A society where right and wrong is not judged by governments or religious texts, but by the effects your actions have on others. It would be grand.

That being said, until they open a Starbucks and a McDonald's on the mars and then take steps to avoid demonic invasion, you can count me out. Oh, and having some oxygen would be nice too.

 

[Smokepuddle]

It'd be the real Red Faction!!! No but seriously that would get boring real fast or land you in jail.

 

[GoldenCondor]

So Mars can be just as bad as Earth?

I say we should send people to colonize mars, but their IQ has to be over 120.

So we won't make the same mistakes... even if IQ doesn't show anything.

 

[Timotei]

M-A-R-S

Mars bitches. We going to Mars! RED ROCKS! *Yeah yay*

OT: I don't think I would. The notorious storms don't really convince me that it is a very safe place.

 

[Wildrow12]

That depends:

Is an angry Austrian man telling me to go there?

 

[Amnestic]

And thus would begin the wars between the Earth Federation and ZEON Earth and Mars.

Yeah, I'd colonise. I'd colonise the hell out of Mars. I'd colonise her so hard she wouldn't even know how colonised she was. She wouldn't be able to sit down for a week after I finished colonising her.

 

[JRCB]

I would go. I'm not too happy with Earth right now, and a new beginning would be awesome. Where do I sign up? And what are the inflight movies on the trip?

 

[Psychemaster]

I wouldn't go to Mars until someone managed to prove it was survivable.

 

[orangebandguy]

We have enough problems here, yet alone Mars.

Maybe one day when the sun gets hotter the water on Mars may become liquid and we can last a few more billion years. We're only ever running from our own destruction.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

And thus would begin the wars between the Earth Federation and ZEON Earth and Mars.

Yeah, I'd colonise. I'd colonise the hell out of Mars. I'd colonise her so hard she wouldn't even know how colonised she was. She wouldn't be able to sit down for a week after I finished colonising her.

hehehehe.
and it would be hard to wage a war against a rock which is too busy fighting itself to unify and fight the red planet. It would be one sided. either way.

 

[Aunel]

well of course, because it would be AWESOME!

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

If i could survive there (highly improbable)I would. I would have to have the essencial for survival: Water, food, shelter and internet.