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What is the deal with colonizing Mars?
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:21 pm
I get the idea that the human race would want to voyage there, explore, research, etc etc. But why the desire to colonize the planet? Elon Musk (and others) talks about it as if his goal is to setup a new civilization there.
Do certain extreme climate changers think that the Earth is going to become uninhabitable in the next 100 years or something? In the event that the Earth warms (or cools) to the point that certain existing areas of the world will be very difficult to live in, I get that various populations will face hardship, mass death events and likely wars over resources. But that is more mankind fighting over the available land versus the Earth itself becoming no longer hospitable to life.
So I get the exploration idea behind it, but I am curious about the long term goals here. I would think the Moon would be far more manageable a process if the goal was setting up a colony off Earth to protect against extinction.
Do certain extreme climate changers think that the Earth is going to become uninhabitable in the next 100 years or something? In the event that the Earth warms (or cools) to the point that certain existing areas of the world will be very difficult to live in, I get that various populations will face hardship, mass death events and likely wars over resources. But that is more mankind fighting over the available land versus the Earth itself becoming no longer hospitable to life.
So I get the exploration idea behind it, but I am curious about the long term goals here. I would think the Moon would be far more manageable a process if the goal was setting up a colony off Earth to protect against extinction.
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Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:22 pm to Webbbster
Mars is in space where there's no air or gravity, so we'd have to colonize it with trees before we can live there.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:23 pm to Webbbster
Giving sjw people and others their own homestead.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:25 pm to Webbbster
It's about having a "backup system" to Earth much like a server or computer. If you have important stuff housed somewhere, it should be replicated off site to guard against something destroying it.
Mars is that backup system. If Earth is destroyed, it's a way to make it so the human race doesn't go with it. Musk and others have been vocal about this.
Mars is that backup system. If Earth is destroyed, it's a way to make it so the human race doesn't go with it. Musk and others have been vocal about this.
This post was edited on 11/13/16 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:25 pm to Webbbster
It's just the next logical step man. No one is trying to do it tomorrow.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:27 pm to Webbbster
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Do certain extreme climate changers think that the Earth is going to become uninhabitable in the next 100 years or something? In the event that the Earth warms (or cools) to the point that certain existing areas of the world will be very difficult to live in, I get that various populations will face hardship, mass death events and likely wars over resources. But that is more mankind fighting over the available land versus the Earth itself becoming no longer hospitable to life.
It's about diversification to ensure the survival of humans. Earth has had extinction level events before and will have them again.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:27 pm to Webbbster
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:28 pm to Webbbster
We long ago colonized the Moon and Mars. We just occasionally talk about it to encourage more funding of missions we know nothing about...
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:30 pm to Webbbster
we are a species of explorers and dreamers...that is what has allowed us to progress so much over time.
mars is just the next step in that quest and since it is too far to really round trip, there will have to be some source of resources there.
mars is just the next step in that quest and since it is too far to really round trip, there will have to be some source of resources there.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:33 pm to Webbbster
It's going to be costly and dangerous.
That's the deal.
That's the deal.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:39 pm to LucasP
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Mars is in space where there's no air or gravity, so we'd have to colonize it with trees before we can live there.
Integral Trees style?
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:40 pm to Webbbster
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But why the desire to colonize the planet? Elon Musk (and others) talks about it as if his goal is to setup a new civilization there.
Umm, yeah, that's the goal. It's to save us from extinction as a species and to further our horizons. Mars will probably be a terraformed planet that we can fully live on by the end of the millinium, so long as we don't nuke each other to death.
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Do certain extreme climate changers think that the Earth is going to become uninhabitable in the next 100 years or something? In the event that the Earth warms (or cools) to the point that certain existing areas of the world will be very difficult to live in, I get that various populations will face hardship, mass death events and likely wars over resources. But that is more mankind fighting over the available land versus the Earth itself becoming no longer hospitable to life.
It's possible we'll make it somewhat uninhabitable over the next 100 years, but by the end of it, we should be a Type I Civilization to where we should be able to reverse it. Why not have another planet that we turn around?
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So I get the exploration idea behind it, but I am curious about the long term goals here. I would think the Moon would be far more manageable a process if the goal was setting up a colony off Earth to protect against extinction.
The Moon can't be possibly terraformed though, and if something particually catostrophic happens on Eath, the Moon will be directly affected as well. We certainly need a Moon Base, but a Mars civilization will ensure the future of the species, not the Moon.
This post was edited on 11/13/16 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:40 pm to LucasP
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Mars is in space where there's no air or gravity.
That's why it's so quiet there
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:42 pm to Webbbster
Let HUD take over the colonizing efforts. With a little Section 8 infusion, Mars will be fully populated and trashed within a year.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:44 pm to Webbbster
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Elon Musk (and others) talks about it as if his goal is to setup a new civilization there
This is the deal. Elon musk has an army of "futurists" who think in 6 months our entire country will be automated, and in two years we'll be living on mats.
Everything Elon musk says is taken far too literally.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:44 pm to Webbbster
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What is the deal with colonizing Mars?
Mars is a stepping stone to getting in on some of this.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:45 pm to biglego
Isnt the average temp on Mars like -100 or something?
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:45 pm to Walking the Earth
Why those girls only got two tits?
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:45 pm to Cosmo
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snt the average temp on Mars like -100 or something?
I'm going to make a killing importing firewood.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 4:46 pm to tiggerthetooth
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This is the deal. Elon musk has an army of "futurists" who think in 6 months our entire country will be automated, and in two years we'll be living on mats.
Everything Elon musk says is taken far too literally.
But he's probably the single most intelligent man in the media today. It is wise to take him seriously.
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