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PJMcK

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12. Excellent points

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 21, 2018, 08:41 AM

Mar 2018

Mars is the wrong place to go.

The ability to terraform a planet is far beyond our technology. We probably can't even send astronauts to Mars safely.

There are other places in our Solar System to study. Europa would be a good start.

However, this is our only planet. We need to protect it or our species is doomed.

In fact, we're doomed anyway.

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"We Aren't Going to Mars" [View all] Binkie The Clown Mar 2018 OP

We can do both Matthew28 Mar 2018 #1

Easily?? Duppers Mar 2018 #3

Trillions of $$ hatrack Mar 2018 #11

Mars is dead. We would have to geoengineer a whole planet. From afar. DetlefK Mar 2018 #5

Excellent points PJMcK Mar 2018 #12

Please explain. Because those statements, in order, are: True, False, False, ???WTF??? Rainbow Droid Mar 2018 #6

We havent solved the problem of radiation in space travel ismnotwasm Mar 2018 #22

Overpopulation and a total aversion to conservation of everything and anything democratisphere Mar 2018 #2

+ struggle4progress Mar 2018 #4

+ a million! Duppers Mar 2018 #7

Can't wait 'till the first rigged election, school shooting or world war... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2018 #8

K&R smirkymonkey Mar 2018 #9

Then humanity is doomed to extinction. TheSmarterDog Mar 2018 #10

Maybe, hopefully, not extinction, just the deaths of Ilsa Mar 2018 #13

"it's going to hurt the entire time" muriel_volestrangler Mar 2018 #15

Same could've been said to argue against humans leaving Africa 2 mill yrs ago TheSmarterDog Mar 2018 #17

No. The environment outside Africa was still compatible with human life muriel_volestrangler Mar 2018 #19

Most places on Earth are incompatible with human life. TheSmarterDog Mar 2018 #20

We are going to Mars. And yes, we have to protect our planet as if our lives depend on it. berni_mccoy Mar 2018 #14

Which resources do you think Mars has that we're running out of? (nt) muriel_volestrangler Mar 2018 #16

Mars would not be the end goal Egnever Mar 2018 #21

Exactly the point that must be addressed. If we can live here, we can't live there. ffr Mar 2018 #18