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valkery
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We now will apparently only have to wait ten to twenty years to go to Mars. Thanks SpaceX!

Now, in ten years or so, we will be going to Mars. SpaceX claims it's rocket will be a transporter, not a colonizer, but hopefully we can work our way up to colonizing sometime before I die.

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iMogwai
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Colonizing Mars would be awesome. I'd open a bar and call it "The Mars Bar"... I just hope the Brits wouldn't try to fry it. (No offense, I just hear you eat fried Mars bars)

qwerty1011
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Colonizing Mars would be awesome. I'd open a bar and call it "The Mars Bar"... I just hope the Brits wouldn't try to fry it. (No offense, I just hear you eat fried Mars bars)


I think that is just some weird people in scotland. As for the space thing this is a lot sooner than I expected it to happen
MageGrayWolf
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I'm glad someone is trying to get there, right now I'm pretty disappointed in the current space program.

Colonizing Mars would be awesome. I'd open a bar and call it "The Mars Bar"... I just hope the Brits wouldn't try to fry it. (No offense, I just hear you eat fried Mars bars)


Don't for get us Americans, we will anything if it's fried.
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How did the whole deep fried butter thing work out anyway...?

Anyway, I hear that one of the major problems of sending people to Mars is the surface of the planet, the dust is really coarse and it could damage the space suits.

Kalb789
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SpaceX claims it's rocket will be a transporter, not a colonizer, but hopefully we can work our way up to colonizing sometime before I die.


why would we colonize mars? it would be a waste of resources.
qwerty1011
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why would we colonize mars? it would be a waste of resources.


How, we would have a whole planets worth of land. I call that a resource
Keyara
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How did the whole deep fried butter thing work out anyway...?

You can do it, the oil you use just has to be the right temperature. Anyway, colonizing Mars would be cool. We would have some more room... I guess you could call it. But if we would actually colonize it we would have to find someway for there to be a constant oxygen supply. And if it was just a transporter what would we transport? It's not like any people would be living there and needing things.
iMogwai
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And if it was just a transporter what would we transport?


How about Justin Bieber?

But yeah, I agree with you, there's does seem rather pointless. Maybe transport some paint and paint the whole planet pink? It'd look like a big, floating chewing gum or something.
valkery
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But yeah, I agree with you, there's does seem rather pointless


Isn't life pointless?

Anyways, think of Mars as more of a stepping stone. If we can colonize another planet, just think of the other possibilities. Someday this planet will die and if we want to live on, we are going to have to go to some other place.
iMogwai
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f we can colonize another planet, just think of the other possibilities.
Colonizing does sound found, but you forget something:

SpaceX claims it's rocket will be a transporter, not a colonizer,


What was pointless about it was sending a transporter there, when they weren't planning to colonize it, and there was nothing that really needs to be transported there.

there's does seem rather pointless


That*. I can't spell today >_>
Keyara
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How about Justin Bieber?

That's a great idea. Well, we could transport our trash so it takes up less space here. So, we could clean up our planet by polluting another.
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extra-terrestrial colonization is the key to the survival of the human species, a species with our caliber of potential can't be dependent on just one planet, we must eventually look out to the stars for progression.

Not only that, but over population would be a thing of the past!

MageGrayWolf
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But if we would actually colonize it we would have to find someway for there to be a constant oxygen supply.


A sealed environment with enough planet life fed by artificial light would work. We would just have to maintain power and protect it from external damages to the structure.

And if it was just a transporter what would we transport?


Humans.
MageGrayWolf
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extra-terrestrial colonization is the key to the survival of the human species, a species with our caliber of potential can't be dependent on just one planet, we must eventually look out to the stars for progression.


I fully agree with this, we would also have to move further then just Mars but any step in that direction is a good one.
Kasic
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If anyone cares, I read a pretty good fiction series that involves the colonization of mars.

Heres a wiki link

Mars Series

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