It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars
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Re: It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars
#2tl;dr: Its hard, and most folks wouldn't want to do it.
Re: It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars
#3Good points comparing colonizing Mars to colonizing places on Earth such as Antarctica, the Sahara, or the bottom of the oceans.
Re: It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars
#4Think of all the great innovations that have come from people who realized that doing hard stuff is hard so don't try.
Re: It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars
#5Interesting usage here. "Alphabet's (formerly Google's)" calls back to the headline yesterday about Alphabet's Google's search engine. Some speculated that soon we'd be talking about Alphabet's Google's Youtube's Youtube Red.
Now we can talk about Alphabet's (formerly Google's) Google's Youtube's Youtube Red.
Re: It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars
#6It is ridiculous but at the same time tackling a problem of this size will provide so many new solutions to other problems as well innovations for new things that we might have not thought of. What we can gain from trying might be worth doing.
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#7> But a colony on Mars would need to be a nearly perfectly self-contained, resource neutral system that harvests energy from the sun and is rarely or never re-supplied. That is currently beyond the reach of science and human ingenuity.
It is no where near the limits of our reach. We already have people living in space year round without any local resources. What we do seem to lack however is any faith in ourselves.
Re: It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars
#8RemindeMe! 50 years
Re: It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars
#9It is ridiculous but at the same time tackling a problem of this size will provide so many new solutions to other problems as well innovations for new things that we might have not thought of. What we can gain from trying might be worth doing.
That depends on approach. If we try and use plants to supply most of the oxygen then that's innovative and risky, just sending lots of oxygen tanks far less so.
Re: It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars
#10tl;dr: Its hard, and most folks wouldn't want to do it.
Of course, that doesn't rule out that some folks might.