When will we be able to settle on Mars?

At the rate the Earth is dying, should we not be putting 'all' our resources into future evacuation?

I see us settling on Mars in 6-8 months give or take

After we conquer the Moon.

We gotta solve the problems on earth before we mess up another planet.

We leave for mars in 106 years.

Meh, sounds boring once the intial "wow, we're on another planet" wears off. Not much there.Engrish_Major

We will probably get condos on the moon before we inhabit Mars.

[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"]Meh, sounds boring once the intial "wow, we're on another planet" wears off. Not much there.super_mario_128

The earth is not dying. IT will either be destroyed completely or it will function just fine.

And mars isnt exactly the best solution to the problems the HUMAN species faces.. the earth is just fine.

I'd say in the year of '39

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"][QUOTE="Engrish_Major"]Meh, sounds boring once the intial "wow, we're on another planet" wears off. Not much there.Engrish_Major

Not running out of water? Really? Earth's population is 6.777 Billion, 134 million births a year.180+ gallons consumed a year per person. How much water does the Earth have?

I can't think of any good reason to settle on Mars.

I mean, it's not like there are things on Mars that we can't just aquire here, are there?

There's got to be a better reason than because "it would be cool." Yeah, it would be cool, but that's not a "useful" reason.

If earth is dying shouldnt we be putting all our effot into reviving it :P

First, the Moon. Then, Mars.

Probably not for at least a hundred or so years. Indeed, we've yet to even land humans on Mars.

The moon will be first as its closer so if there is problems we can react quickly.

well if you really want to go to Mars you can go ahead, but i warn you the Martians can be pretty cranky!

The rest of us are gonna stay on earth and try to fix the planet where humanity was first born!!:P

I would definitely have a picnic with some martians.

It's going to bea very long time before we need to evacuate, and by then, we'll probably have found a much nicer planet than Mars.

It's going to bea very long time before we need to evacuate, and by then, we'll probably have found a much nicer planet than Mars.

bangell99

mars doesnt even have readily avaible water,or an atmosphere consisting of breathable air :|JPOBS

Not running out of water? Really? Earth's population is 6.777 Billion, 134 million births a year.180+ gallons consumed a year per person. How much water does the Earth have?

Retrogamer24

[QUOTE="JPOBS"]mars doesnt even have readily avaible water,or an atmosphere consisting of breathable air :|MocktheDead

[QUOTE="MocktheDead"][QUOTE="JPOBS"]mars doesnt even have readily avaible water,or an atmosphere consisting of breathable air :|Big_Bad_Sad

Nasafor one, i'm sure you can find many more articles of it on the web (actualy its vise-versa, I was thinking of Venus for some reason:P).

150-200 years. Heck, could be sooner. Science is developing at an exponential rate. Scientists will learn more in the next 15 years than they've learnt in the last 50.

You can't really guess at where science will be by looking at how fast it has developed. It will be scary how much knowledge scientists will have uncovered one hundred years from now.

Roughly...never.Big_Bad_Sad

Yeah, I think it's impossible. The book I'm reading currently pretty much states this. The Earth is perfectly suited to our needs (I mean perfect. Any slight changes to the Earth could have drastic consequences) with all the elements found in it. We need those perfect combination of elements to survive. Even if Mars had oxygen, we could still die on the planet because it's different from the makeup of Earth. Even our location relative to the Sun is extremely important.

At least this is what I think I understood from my reading.

Mars would be a hellish place to live.

The dust on Mars is not only harmful to your body, but it's really fine and can completely ruin electronic equipment even the electronic equipment that's mean to keep you alive. The static charge within the dust shorts out electronics.

[QUOTE="JPOBS"]mars doesnt even have readily avaible water,or an atmosphere consisting of breathable air :|MocktheDead

Im already there. Here is a picture of the front lawn

Umm... never? it takes a long time to get there. and a lot of cash. and since we can guess that Mars was JUST like earth, but what happened to it would probably happen again if we changed it.