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Originally Posted by Byte1
Kind of stupid to put folks up there before installing habitats to will be self-sustaining. First thing that should be done is send up equipment and supplies to terraform the planet to make it habitable. It's going to need oxygen producing vegetation and in order to sustain vegetation, it must have a source of water. Even if they start now, it won't happen in my lifetime, so it really doesn't matter to me. That's a lot of money that will be potentially thrown away, that could be better used here. Of course, if Elon Musk wishes to throw his money into the wind, it's his to do with as he wishes.
But, as for sending folks up there on a sight seeing trip, it seems to be costly and very, very dangerous.
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Short stays determine if it can be done. Longer stays will determine the real feasibility for possible permanent bases and the possibility for terraforming for the actual survival and colonization by humanity. Our Martian descendants will have to adapt and evolve there in the same way we have, and continue to evolve here, physically, socially and intellectually.
It won't happen in my lifetime either, and I leave no descendants of my own. Still, I wonder and hope my species will survive and succeed in become a light in the universe.