- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The problem is, though we could reach mars right now, in theory, if we had enough space ships, we still lack the technology to teraform mars into a suitable environment. Colonists would have to make everything themselves, we wouldn't be able to send them all of their supplies from Earth. They would have to either A) build underground colonies with artifical lighting and growing environments for survival, or B) build their colony on a space station, were light from the sun would be continuous.
Truth is, I put 2100 plus. We just don't have the technology. A trip from earth to mars using convential rockets would take months. Thats a long, long time. A colony would have to bring enough supplies (impossbile, our space shuttles cannon carry enough cargo) or start growing food on their own, which as I said earlier, is an uncertain question..