The biggest problem I see with mars is the lack of a magnetosphere. It can be overcome for small bases but to truly colonize we would need to terraform the planet.
Mars, the planet of our future...and probably our past.
anyway regardless of the truth of that..
Here we are in the 21st Century, when we should be reaching for the stars, going boldly forth where no man has gone before...we are spending the money we could be using for that battling a bunch of Islamic idiots who want to live in the stone age.
for some reason, hearing the phrase “Mars is the planet of our destiny” made Easter Island pop into my head (give everything to appease the gods, even to society’s detriment)
Mars is the planet of Islam’s destiny. Pack ‘em up and LEAVE them there. The rest of us can find something better.
“Earth is Room Enough”. ;’)