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i wouldnt mind an internet connection with a couple terabyte bandwidth .
i'm sure you wouldnt mind more conveniences, no?
plus, there might be an aids pill or a cure for cancer up there :eek3:

Well, its true.. Many countries that are friendly with the US did so because it was in their best economic interest to trade and stuff with America. Its not the Americans fault that they're too rich .

Industries HAVE cleaned up a crapload since last century. So we're on the road to somewhere. Are you arguing that there wont be any pollution regulations up in space when we're on different planets?

 

Just because you don't understand or agree with it doesn't mean it's careless. People with a lot more education, knowlege, money and experiance than you and I are making these decisions.

 

i feel that there is only so much we can learn from them and i dont understand why repeated trips to the moon yeild us the same results.... more rocks from the moon and no huge breakthroughs. how many times must we go up there, how many dollars must be spent? cant we just use the moon rocks we already have?

as for no vs. low gravity on mars, if there is enough gravity on mars to hold a human and the regular tools of life - from things as large as cars to things as small as toothpicks - down, i stand corrected. if there isnt, my point remains.... it wont be easy to go about our day to day tasks if we float.

 

Lots of points from both sides here. I personally don't think we'll ever inhabit mars, unless its on some kind space station or biodome. However, taking trips to Mars will get scientists to invent faster ways of getting there. Space travel will get faster, and faster. Before you know it they'll be manned space craft traveling out of this solar system.

 

there is ice on mars. ice = water = oxygen. and with a little bit of some technological advancements, we'll be able to recycle much of the waste we produce by the time we get up there. We can control the climate inside greenhouses and such, so i dont see how we couldnt be able to grow plants up there. same thing with animals. just raise them up there.

 

They have cleaned up some but far from what regulations tell them to. Many are always paying off huge fines because its easier and cheaper than coming into compliance with regulations.

Am I saying that there won't be regulations on Mars...no not at all in fact the opposite, but after seeing how enforceable it is on earth what gives me any hope that it will be more enforced on Mars?

All I have to go on is the current and past record in order to make my call on the situation

 

well...it would have to be some biodome..wouldnt it? i wouldnt like to wear a spacesuit all day, every day

 

hahaha or rover just happens upon a little bottle of pills on mars

no, i do see that as a possibility, a mineral or something up there that could be a medical breakthrough, i will admit that potential..but we must also recognize the potential for negative results.... perhaps disease or minerals that could result in the destruction of life as we know it...

 

Well, whats the worst thing that could happen? After trashing Mars and the moon, we could just move on to Jupiter's moons .

I say we just place all the industry on Mars in Japan's hands. They like to make things clean and efficient

 

Everything has gravity. You have gravity. The more dense and bigger something is the more gravity it has.

Have you seen the videos of people walking on the moon? They can and do. Yes they have a very springy step and can float for a good distance but they can still work like normal.

Mars is a good bit bigger than the moon too. So mars has more than the moon in terms of gravity. Not as much as earth.