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Subject: Will people be on Mars?
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Poll: When will people be on Mars?  [closed]
2010 - 2025:  18%
(3 Votes)
2025 - 2050:  35%
(6 Votes)
2050 - 2075:  12%
(2 Votes)
2075 - 2100:  6%
(1 Votes)
2100+:  6%
(1 Votes)
Never:  12%
(2 Votes)
I dont care:  0%
(0 Votes)
I hate Mars:  12%
(2 Votes)
Total Votes: 17

Eventually Earth will become overpopulated and the demand for expansion will get very high and Mars would provide hope. The moon would be good but as you all should know it has no atmosphere. I believe we'll be there by 2075.

[Edited on 10/3/2004 10:24:18 AM]

  • 10.03.2004 10:12 AM PDT
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The way i see it, World War 3 will happen before we get to mars.

  • 10.03.2004 10:14 AM PDT
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I'm skiping mars and goin to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. lots of water, and away from World War III.

  • 10.03.2004 10:19 AM PDT
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I voted never, but then I remembered there was a shipyard on Mars in Halo (mentioned in the books) so my real vote is 2350 - 2600. :-)

[Edited on 10/3/2004 10:39:43 AM]

  • 10.03.2004 10:39 AM PDT
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Screw Europa, let's look for Reach :)

I think we'll get there by 2050. That is, if we get the right presidents. I mean, we're already sending rovers there. In 50 years, who knows.

  • 10.03.2004 10:40 AM PDT
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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..

  • 10.03.2004 1:18 PM PDT
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youve got a point there, but who really cares? NASA will figure it out when the time comes. frankly im fine by just staying on Earth. Now dont get started with, "Earth will overpopulate soon! Pollution will become terrible! Im a liberal! find me a tree to hug! Wheres my soy car?"

  • 10.03.2004 1:30 PM PDT
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Liberals are the ones that keep you from blowing youself up. :P

Anyways, I voted 2075-2100, as that is when the tech will definitely be there. If the nanotech evolves quickly enough, it won't matter what you bring because you'll simply be able to mold the terrain however you like and convert Mars's plentiful iron oxide into air and water. Instant underground colony. Or, if we don't have nanotech assets, it'll be difficult, but we'll have to manually dig under the surface or construct buildings. I have no doubt that people will be able to survive on Mars in that time period, assuming the world hasn't exploded by then, but an actual terraforming of Mars would have to wait a lot longer, or at least until we have nanites that won't convert everything to gray goo.

  • 10.03.2004 1:44 PM PDT
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This is my theory for Mars: Mars is actually a very good place to live. The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, plants breathe in this gas and turn it into oxygen. Therefore if you started to put plants into the Mars soil, you would have oxygen in the air. If there was eventually a large forest, you could live on the surface in this forest without protective masks. Sounds good to me.

  • 10.03.2004 1:53 PM PDT
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I forgot about that! Gengineered plants for the win!

  • 10.03.2004 2:01 PM PDT