10-01-2004 03:14									#1
	If you could emigrate to Mars, but could never come back to Earth, would you go? Inflate your Upload Space

Given that Mars' gravety is much lower than our own, if you spent any significant time there, you'd be physically unable to return to Earth. What with the time in transit round trip and the time on Mars, your bones and muscles would probably be unable to take the strain of normal Earth gravety, let alone re-entry.

So, would you move to Mars (assuming an infrastructure there to support it) or stay here on Earth.

I'd like to go, but there's places I'd like to see on Earth first.

	10-01-2004 03:18									#2
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No, I still have unfinished business here.

	10-01-2004 04:40									#3
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But think of the Red Mars, che, think of the possibilities

	10-01-2004 04:46									#4
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I wouldn't go to mars wether I could come back or not.

	10-01-2004 04:56									#5
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If they got high-speed internet, hell yeah.

	10-01-2004 05:10									#6
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The muscle problem is big with shuttles, stations, and the moon too...IIRC...the solution is long and streneuous exercise (and I'm pretty sure the astronauts are required to eat a better diet too).

	10-01-2004 05:39									#7
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This is a poll Fez would be proud of.

	10-01-2004 06:15									#8
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Nope. I like Earth just fine

	10-01-2004 06:16									#9
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Ditto.

	10-01-2004 06:17									#10
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I guess it all depends on who would go with me.

	10-01-2004 06:20									#11
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If it's a place free to begin a socialist paradise, count me in

Otherwise, if there's nothing to do more than in Earth, certainly not. I'm all right here.

	10-01-2004 07:11									#12
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Not for a few hundred thousand years, when it's like earth.

	10-01-2004 07:25									#13
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Depends on if there's a good reason for me to go.

	10-01-2004 07:56									#14
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I'd go. Anything has to be better than this stinking place we call Earth.

	10-01-2004 07:58									#15
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If we can terraform Mars, or adapt an economy to it, it will be the biggest land rush in history. Think of it! An entire free planet of real estate! The surpluses of Earthling population would fill it up within minutes.

Imagine! Free land! Oppurtunity! A new start!

EDIT: And then, unfortunately, I rethought this one, and remembered the likelyhood that some ugly corporation would purchase it and turn it into a shithole.

	10-01-2004 08:00									#16
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I would love the challenge of taming a planet! BUT, Smiley's requirement would be a must!

	10-01-2004 08:16									#17
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HELL YES!

One cannot get too much red dust and rocks.

	10-01-2004 08:24									#18
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The Martian Frontier. Millions of acres of pre-terraformed terrain, capable of growing any Earthling crop or supporting any Earthling livestock. And none of those pesky natives or wild animals either, just a vast, empty blank slate of expanse...40 acres free! Each additional 40 is only $10! The spacerail will provide a quick 2-week trip to any major Martian city.

When this happens, Earth will be a crowded, hungry, tired mass of poor. The factors will be ripe for a mass migration. It will be the biggest of history.

	10-01-2004 08:29									#19
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I like Earth just fine thanks. However if I were forced to go to Mars (provided it was habitable) I wouldn't resist.

	10-01-2004 09:12									#20
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At my age, I would go in a hearth beat.

	10-01-2004 09:23									#21
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HELL NO. NO CHIKAS THERE. aND CRAPY DIALUP CONNECTION

	10-01-2004 09:25									#22
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Depends on the number of females also moving there...

	10-01-2004 09:26									#23
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but they got verizon wireless on mars

"can you hear me now? GOOD!"

	10-01-2004 09:28									#24
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I'd selflessly give up my seat so that Bush could go.

	10-01-2004 09:31									#25
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dEAN IS ALREADY THERE.

	10-01-2004 10:34									#26
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Has anyone ever made a serious attempt to figure out whether it's really possible to terraform Mars? The planet has less gravity, so even if you could release a bunch of Oxygen and Nitrogen above the surface would the gravitational field be able to maintain a sufficient atmosphere, or would so much escape into space that the air would not be sustain human life? While "greenhouse gases" can be used to trap heat, Mars is 50% further from the sun than the Earth, so the density of light striking the planet's surface is about one half of that striking the Earth. Would the concentration of gases needed to trap sufficient heat to make the temperature of the Martian atmosphere tolerable be toxic?

	10-01-2004 11:14									#27
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quote: dEAN IS ALREADY THERE.

	10-01-2004 11:19									#28
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quote: Originally posted by PLATO I would love the challenge of taming a planet! BUT, Smiley's requirement would be a must!

ping>1 000 000 at best

	10-01-2004 11:20									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Dr Strangelove Has anyone ever made a serious attempt to figure out whether it's really possible to terraform Mars? The planet has less gravity, so even if you could release a bunch of Oxygen and Nitrogen above the surface would the gravitational field be able to maintain a sufficient atmosphere, or would so much escape into space that the air would not be sustain human life? While "greenhouse gases" can be used to trap heat, Mars is 50% further from the sun than the Earth, so the density of light striking the planet's surface is about one half of that striking the Earth. Would the concentration of gases needed to trap sufficient heat to make the temperature of the Martian atmosphere tolerable be toxic?

Leaking would take a few million years (IIRC)

For moon it's on order of a hundred thousand years.

	10-01-2004 11:23									#30
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rms velocity of O2 at room temperature is something like 400 metres/sec

escape velocity of moon is 11 000 m/s