Why or why not?

beacuse once you put your foot on the ground of mars , you will do what no man before you had ever done. also , there will be limited amounts of men and woman, and Im not too bad looking myself.....soo, you know .

and the final thing would be that we could start over, leave earth ways of thinking behind and take a step in the right direction.

no unless Mars is like Pandora from Avatar

I wouldn't trade the beauty and wonder on earth for anything less than a productive and life-filled alien planet

Tripping out in nature wouldnt be the same without a forest and animals around. Plus it'd be trickier sourcing and growing all of the plants I want to grow on Mars. I'd like to check it out and all, but I dont think a Martian desert is the place I'd want to spend the rest of my life.

Having spent my whole life reading sci-fi novels that deal with this very topic, I have to admit I'm quite intrigued by the idea. But...



^ this pretty well sums up my feelings.

Boy it sure would be neat to sit up top of Olympus Mons with a big bowl of changa and watch the sun set over the red desert though.

I voted hell yeah

Under the assumption there is a stable colony already on Mars. Would it not be awesome to travel through space on to another planet?! I wonder what night time on Mars looks like, with the thin atmosphere you can probably see deeply into the cosmos.

Although I wouldn't want to leave Earth because its toxic and I need somewhere to go, I would hypothetically like to leave Earth under the condition that this planet is in balance, and I were traveling into the cosmos as a Gaian ambassador.

So as much as a martian fantasy is incredible Earth is the cradle and Gaia my mother, I hope that if we do make it to Mars we remember this.

No. I do not want to live on a planet where i cannot breath the atmosphere. Not only that but i believe that the alien ambience would result in severe home sickness and possible insanity. But that"s just me. I even get homesick when i look at a picture of the earth when viewed from space.

I'm ready to go, forever, if need be.

You're a very, very naughty boy

To answer the question: No, why would i want to? Sure i could pat myself on the back for being the first human on mars and that my name will never be forgotten etc etc....but that would get boring fast.

A big resounding no for me . Not an appealing prospect
by any stretch . Cosmic rays are a real issue among many other things.
It will be done eventually though .

http://www.wired.com/201...radiation-risk-iss-mars/

absolutely not

no pot
no magic
no chance

No, unless it's better designed than Earth.

In the current state, humanity could use the surface as a battleground for atomic warfare. I'm totally in for an Atomic Warfare Championship on Mars. The team with the best mechs or bombs wins. Soccer/Nascar/Formula One just sucks.

And after we're done with bombing the shit out of each other, we could terraform it, so we have a nice cosmic outpost. Maybe Mars is good for running genetic experiments that would otherwise be dangerous on Earth. I mean, not only terraform Mars, but create new lifeforms, so Mars looks totally different from Earth. New plants, new animals and new humanoids.

What if there is already life on mars? Even if it is just basic single celled life. We go wading in, with our terra-forming and genetic experiments, and completely disrupt the natural flow and evolution of this life. After we"ve finished shitting on our own doorstep we might aswell go do it on someone elses. I guess it"s human nature.

Oh please, we bring them democracy! They only wait to be assimi... liberated!

For me, it would really depend on who all is going to mars. If the greedy pigs who hog all the resources on earth are going to Mars, I wouldn't want to go. I'd rather happily die on an exploding earth than continue to live within their cycle on a dry, red planet. I like earth enough to deal with their BS. And, there are enough earthlings here to keep the powers at be occupied enough so that they aren't worried about me. In a new, struggling, small population on Mars, you know they'd likely want control

Anyone ever read the classic book, "Pioneer Women?"

Mars would be SO much more difficult.

To be honest, I am NOT cut from such stock.

I would prefer someone else to do the pioneering. It might be nice to go as second generation. Still getting access to interesting land, still homesteading so to speak. Do a lot of hydro or aeroponic farming. Yet, knowing that issues like air, food and water are pretty much covered.

I have frequently fantasized about skiing down the CO2 ice caps to land in black sand dunes. I understand that is how the ice caps are on Mars and it sounds trippy as all whatnot.

A lot of assumptions here... in both the question and the answers.

1st off, there is no way too say that such a journey would have to be one way. Even if it seemed such when you left, if the colony was successful, then it is conceivable that in time the technology and ability to send people home would arise.


2nd, Mars wasn't always a freezing desert, and it is likely that humanity would engage in some kind of terraforming. Hard to imagine what Mars would be like if all those rivers and bodies of water returned.

I won't go on.

What I will say is that the attractiveness of the mission would be 100% based on who organized it, who else was going, and the basic objectives laid down. If it was a commercial venture by Monsanto or some mining concern... it would be very different than if it was an altruistic endeavor by futurist scientists. If it was organized by Disney or some Vegas casinos... or a cult of polyamorous nudist DMT enthusiasts looking for religious freedom. hehehehe

I think Elon Musk is probably not the worst guy to be initiating colonization of Mars. So, if it was his plan we were doing... I might be inclined to jump on board. Teslas for everyone!