The_ Mars_Underground.avi

[lemonique]

Hi, A video about mankind's dreams of colonizing the planet Mars. It's by Scott Gill and it's 1 hour 23minutes long. I have just started to view it myself. Enjoy!! :)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8278497162583992975&hl=en
The_Mars_Underground.avi

Lemonique

[lightbeing]

Hi, A video about mankind's dreams of colonizing the planet Mars. It's by Scott Gill and it's 1 hour 23minutes long. I have just started to view it myself. Enjoy!! :)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8278497162583992975&hl=en
The_Mars_Underground.avi

Lemonique

Good one lemonique, one day I will walk on mars............:)

I'm sure that some of us originated from their.........:)

[lemonique]

Hi Lightbeing, Your children's children may be the future residents of Mars. The sooner we venture forth out into the solar system and beyond, the better we will become as human beings. We are by nature explorers and stagnation by NOT going into space will be our demise.
Mars will need Terra forming.....but what a terrific challenge that will represent. I would have loved to have been one of the first gardener's on Mars.
Maybe the next life eh?

Lemonique

PS: the Cats in Avatar are Sphynx

[lightbeing]

Hi Lightbeing, Your children's children may be the future residents of Mars. The sooner we venture forth out into the solar system and beyond, the better we will become as human beings. We are by nature explorers and stagnation by NOT going into space will be our demise.
Mars will need Terra forming.....but what a terrific challenge that will represent. I would have loved to have been one of the first gardener's on Mars.
Maybe the next life eh?

Lemonique

PS: the Cats in Avatar are Sphynx

Hi Lemonique,

Indeed, ever since I can remember I wanted to explore space..........:)
Sure thing, the next life/reality, Mars here we come..............

First place I'm going to visit!.....................;)

[hagbard_celine]

Mars will need Terra forming.....but what a terrific challenge that will represent.

One of my favorite novels is Kin Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. It raises a question that no other science fiction book does: not only whether terraforming is possible, but is it morally right? One of the charcaters in the story, who lands on Mars with the other astronauts and builds a colony there, is opposed to terraforming. She thinks we have no right to change an alien planet into another version of Earth. I can see her point actually.

Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[lemonique]

One of my favorite novels is Kin Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. It raises a question that no other science fiction book does: not only whether terraforming is possible, but is it morally right? One of the charcaters in the story, who lands on Mars with the other astronauts and builds a colony there, is opposed to terraforming. She thinks we have no right to change an alien planet into another version of Earth. I can see her point actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

Hi Hagbard, yes it could be wrong in many ways. Once the ice melts there all the sea critters would begin to grow again and goodness knows what sort of things they would be.
One could argue I suppose that Mars used to be like the Earth, and it would just be returning to a Mars 'normal'.
Have to say though that it would be an exciting time for the scientists who go up there. Humans love challenge!

[lightbeing]

I feel the 'face' on Mars is a calling card, a symbol on who we all are and where we came from...............:)
As Mars is now, I like the apparent desolation of the place, strangely it seems very comforting...........:eek:

[hagbard_celine]

Hi Hagbard, yes it could be wrong in many ways. Once the ice melts there all the sea critters would begin to grow again and goodness knows what sort of things they would be.
One could argue I suppose that Mars used to be like the Earth, and it would just be returning to a Mars 'normal'.
Have to say though that it would be an exciting time for the scientists who go up there. Humans love challenge!


Mars was certainly much warmer and had water on its surface in the past. So to restore that situation wouldn't be the same as changing a planet that was naturally dry. I've not made upo my mind competely on the rights and wronfs of it. But in the book, Sax Russell, the leader of the Terraforming project has no doubts. It would be a real adventure to go there no matter what happened!:)