[_ Old Earth _] Mars

[Lewis]

The Mars One plan is totally delusional

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mars-ones-plan-colonize-red-155056558.html

(NASA ) Earth and Mars shown to scale. Despite those beautiful images of swirling red clouds and sprawling landscapes, Mars is an barren desert that is incredibly inhospitable to life

 

[Barbarian]

Marian colonies would, for thousands of years, exist as enclosed capsules, or underground in sealed caverns. Eventually, terraforming would be possible, but it would be slow.

Not my idea of a great place to live.

 

[Pizza]

Eventually, terraforming would be possible, but it would be slow.

I've read a lot about terraforming Mars. We discuss it on TheSpacePort from time to time.
My conclusion: Terraforming is like Santa Claus - great idea, but fiction.

 

[reba]

Need man to warm that planet up?

 

[Barbarian]

Worked on this one.

 

[reba]

What men caused the first thaw?

 

[Barbarian]

The first one is sorta complicated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth

However, it's working that way now.