I guess this means pretty soon we'll get to hear people of Canadian descent living on Mars pissing and moaning about the insistence of the damn greenskins that they're the only "native Martians."
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Just thinking out loud here....
The odds against building and sending a sustainable colony to Mars are pretty much insurmountable. Water is almost non-existent in any useable form, There is no atmosphere that the colonists could use. Any colony would be dependent on regular shipments of neccesities, from Earth. What will they do for energy? Atomic power. Any one way mission to Mars would be a suicide mission.
The colony would take many, many years to be able to sustain themselves.
The odds against building and sending a sustainable colony to Mars are pretty much insurmountable. Water is almost non-existent in any useable form, There is no atmosphere that the colonists could use. Any colony would be dependent on regular shipments of neccesities, from Earth. What will they do for energy? Atomic power. Any one way mission to Mars would be a suicide mission.
The colony would take many, many years to be able to sustain themselves.
I would reply that in many of the heavily-populated parts of Earth, water is almost non-existent in any usable form. We survive and thrive where it's too damn hot, too damn cold, too damn what-have-you to survive. What we have the will to do, we have the ability to do. The rest is just engineering.
(To any engineers on this board, my comment about "just" engineering is not intended to denigrate or minimise the importance of engineering. Any one engineer has done the human race more good than every theologian and philosopher in history put together.)
Anything is possible if you have enough money but we were talking about a one way trip to Mars for a dozen or so people. A similar trip to the moon would not be a problem. Mars would be a whole new ball game. Supposing we could get them safely on Mars with a year's supply of food, Now what? We can't get them back...Getting them back was not in the plans so do they give each other fatal injections before they run out of air to breath.......Sounds like a dopey idea to me.