Elton John once said 'Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids · In fact it's cold as hell' ....but if you were given the opportunity to go on the first manned (or womanned) mission to the red planet, knowing you might not come back would you go?
if you took it with you, it wouldn't rust I believe there is still a double decker bus on the moon somewhere
Elton John, typical lefty liberal do gooder interfering busy body! If I want to raise my kids on Mars, I jolly well will! The sooner we leave the common market the better!
Depends on the level of the expectation of not coming back. The future NASA missions will obviously be fully engineered return journeys not suicide missions so I would on those terms. But I wouldn't take part in the proposed independant one way journey which has been in the media which seems proper Mickey Mouse.
in all seriousness, I think Mars is the next logical step in us becoming an interplanetary species The resources and habitable space on our planet are not infinite, so is colonising other planets a solution for the future ? I agree we do need to sort out this planet, find renewable sources of energy, eradicate poverty, eradicate disease etc.. Setting up a long term base on Mars (or the moon) could be a good step to going further, even with all of our faults we are a truly remarkable species capable of so much more. It would be good if something like colonising Mars would bring our fragmented nations closer together for the common cause of mankind
Well you better get a move on Diddymen if the Moon is where you want to go. Russell Thompkins of seminal Philly soul group The Stylistics has stated categorically that one day he'd like to be the owner of the first house on the moon, and he went on to opine that there would be no neighbours, and, moreover, no population boom. He has as far as I know, not expressed any interest in Mars as yet.
To the best of my knowledge, the ozone layer came as part of the fixtures and fittings when we evolved from the gloop and colonised our lovely planet Earth... and we've managed to make a hole in that; so I'm really not holding out much hope that we could look after any kind of man-made greenhouse type atmosphere containment thing required to make Mars habitable for us oxygen breathers. .....One wrong move and it'll be like opening the toilet window on an aeroplane halfway across the Atlantic! Think I'll stick with the " utterly insignificant little blue-green planet " where I was born, ta
