Mars Colonization Discussion Thread

I haven't read all the way back in this thread but I suspect that the point of bringing up Venutian cloud cities is to highlight the fact that Venus isn't the horrific hell hole that everyone first imagines when they read the name.

But none of this "colonization" discussion, whether it be Mars or wherever, makes any sense to me. There has to be a reason to go and I don't see what that might be. Sure there'd be some novelty to living on Mars - for about a week - but there has to be more than that.

It is clear from the discussion in this thread that colonizing any planet is impractical for the foreseeable future. We might send scientific outposts to these places at some point in the next century, but nobody is going to be raising families while running moisture farms on Tatooine Mars or mining gas on Bespin Venus any time soon.Mars Colonization Discussion Thread

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