Mars

Fair enough, didn't know that.

 

Find the water - ice - and you've found the oxygen. A kid with a chemistry set could do the rest. The job will be hauling up the equipment up there. This is where the Aldrin Conveyer Belt will come into play. I'll let you look that up, or I could bore everyone a bit further on just how brilliant those Apollo astronauts really were?

 

this populating another planet sounds a piece of piss..

what can possibly go wrong?

 

I posted about a Brian Cox documentary earlier on Mars history. What you've said is true to an extent but without a natural magnetic field we'd need to find an artificial way of keeping the atmosphere or it'll quickly be stripped away again by the sun.

 

Wouldn't look at the sun too long: even at 93m miles away, you'll end up with a squint like Lee Majors.

 

Back to them big glass domes

 

We're just far too incompetent or self-destructive as a species to contain it.

 

Some ****er will sneak a piece home to show his wife and kids

 

People will die going there: people will die when they get there. Bit like how the South Sea Islanders populated the Pacific over the milennia in little rafts. Nothing gets nothing.

 

yeah i get you, no difference in sailing the seas to travelling up into space.

 

Oh yes. I meant oxygen for power, and we'd have to live underground and in bubbles for centuries. Terra forming is generations away. But pumping carbon into the atmosphere, believe it or not, will be part of the equation.

 

Evolution

 

It will at least also enable ppl to have enough oxygen for space suits etc when they venture above ground as well.

It's amazing to think the surface is a scorched hell, but a lot of it is solidified volcanic lava which happened after the planet died and underneath it all it's so cold there could be millions of tonnes of frozen water.

 

Good shout. Comm mentioned Aliens but Prometheus may be more appropriate.

 

Not if we put @BobbyD in charge

 

I watched a programme about it some time ago

It is thought that the Martians would evolve in a different way to the people left on Earth, would still be identifiable as human but would be almost a seperate species

The really interesting point raised was that if conditions worsened on Earth and greatly improved on Mars would the Martians allow migrants from Earth to move to Mars

Probably not was the conclusion

 

Yey! Me and Bobby will open the first Chinese Takeaway on the top of Olympus Mons.

 

True. They shoulda had him in charge in China and Covid would never have happened!