Same

@firefall: Really? Wow. You think we'll crack travel before colonizing unfriendly environments? That's interesting. My brother is seriously into all this stuff.

@sarabee1995: so am I. Partly, I hold that opinion because of the way money gets invested in research - pure physics questions get vastly more funding than environmental manipulation. In my most optimistic moments, I can see some breakthrough that gives FTL travel of some sort; I can't really see any way of making Mars habitable, with so many factors needing to be alleviated. Easier to tow Europa or Io into a lagrange with Earth, maybe.

@firefall: Terra-forming Mars, FTL travel, towing moons around the solar system... The primary impediment to all of these is simply the energy required. Yes, each has other technical challenges, but we know enough to know that each of these will require enormous energy input. The next great breakthrough that will propel scientific achievement is going to be in the energy area. And I'm not talking patchwork solutions like wind or solar. I'm talking about outside the box crazy stuff like zero point energy or dark matter/energy or who knows ... maybe warp field generation. But it will be something we cannot imagine today. When we crack that, then terra-forming Mars will be child's play.

I don't think humans are arrogant, we're just trying to maintain a species. Unless the other planet is already taken

Lol I think until then, the government would care about the existence of humanity than tax

That makes me sad lol

But the moon is too small to be our home

@Alex1610: Earth will remain our home. Mars and the moon will simply be colonies.

Lol

What makes you so sure?

So you do believe

And undersea :)

Well it doesn't

Lol you think we're gonna build houses like on Earth?

@Alex1610: if no, then where will we live? In open?

Why?

Doesn't naturally support active life. What little water is there is frozen. No ozone layer and on.

Yeah, me too

Yeah, me too