Using solar power, right?
No coal. No fossil fuels. No nuclear power. No wind farms. No dams.
Can I pick a few hundred of them?
All aboard, Democrats! One way trip for free!
No magnetic field protecting them from cosmic rays, almost no atmosphere, very little water, for several years you would be solely reliant on billion dollar resupply rockets from earth for everything.
What could go wrong?
Maybe we feed bugs and algae to all the starving people on Earth first to see if it works. Would be a hell of a project and it would save millions of lives.
I like to point out whenever possible that if science can make Mars livable, science can probably also do the same with Earth, and we already have people here to staff the projects.
If you bring potato beetles I will kill you.
Stuoidest thing I ever read.
Riiiight. Hey scientists, figure out how global warming always pushes its self out 10 years!
*ping*
Biosphere 2 in Arizona was a closed system such as envisioned on Mars. I have visited this facility and it is very energy intensive to run all the environmental systems. One pump, one control system, one plumbing leak would be disaster. A smoking electric motor would fill the complex with toxic fumes. The backup equipment would be staggering.
Biosphere 2 was an absolute disaster because the project failed to produce enough food to meet the calorie requirements of the participants. The hungry Biospherians began eating seed stocks that had not been grown inside the Biosphere 2. Such a situation will not go well on Mars because of the time it takes to send emergency food or other critical equipment. A colony of one million people would require a perfect system. Any little failure would have big consequences. I wouldn’t risk my life in such a situation.
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.
Yeah... exciting life when it’s -80 outside. No beach, no boats, no golf, no...
bugs and algae? yuck!
put Pizza on the menu (and a good 5 Guys burger joint) and I’ll go
Yes, increasingly more stupid people have been preferred as employees and spouses for a couple of generations. That’s why drug problems and other aberrations (hooking up, misinformation about sex, etc.) are so common. Get stupid people to eat stuff like that, and we’ll have an overabundance of good food for ourselves. Just give them mountains of refined sugar to go with those nasty dietary tangents.
One million people, huh? Do you really think the 7.6 billion other people on earth are going to give them a “bon voyage” party and wave as they sail into space and away from death. Trust me, the animal in people isn’t that tame and/or trained.
And as for protecting them and the vehicle, does the name Custer ring a bell?
rwood
Reminds me of the kind of people who went to Venus in the following (great classic short story in a free, online book).
The Marching Morons by C. M. Kornbluth
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51233
The stylish and more educated folks should go to Mars. We’ll cheer them on.
Mars would be a veritable Utopia for all those who find life with White people difficult. There they could start a new society based on African and other third world principles and traditions.
For protein there is always the inevitable rat.
Stupid! Humans are not optimized for living on Mars! Radiation would kill us unless well shielded! Plus it’s wrong to force a baby to be born in an environment for which he is not suited, and preventing him from seeing the green hills of Earth and breathing the fresh air after a spring rain.
These people are complete idiots!