Before you can terraform mars you have to terraform earth. Its much easier to terraform earth and you gain a lot of know how. To do that however, you first need to kill the cost of energy and desalinated water. Both those barriers will be broken in the next ten years. There are a couple of harbingers of this already. The Israelis for example have become water independent byo water desalination—without the benefit of cheap oil like the gulf states. This is a feat of literally biblical proportions. And it goes mostly unnoticed.
I put together this utube to show how this works over time and in the present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCo4SKynckE&feature=youtu.be
Nice videos ckilmer.
No. It just takes political will and there is no indication, in the US at least, of existing - just the opposite. It will also take in conjunction with the political will a revamped educational system that actually educates. All other manned colonizing expeditions by other countries are basically military in intent, not civilian.
No one is going to go through all the trouble that overly-optimistic vid suggests. The Earth is already terraformed so using that word makes no sense. Increasing the amount of usable fresh water is a separate problem from actually sending people to another planet and having them survive long enough to do anything useful. Terraforming is so far down the list as to be laughable at this point in time - in fact it might be easier to alter human physiology to suit the planet rather than go to the time, expense, trouble to terraform.
Terraforming Venus is just a ridiculous proposition no matter how nice the PowerPoint presentation seems.
I gave your video a like on YouTube. It was nicely done and soothing in a way. It’s nice to think optimistically in the face of humanities sometimes ugly nature.