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To give the counter-argument, some of the topography is awesome, primarily Olympus Mons and the Valles Marineris, but we can't even send rovers there, let alone humans. Landing is too difficult. It'll be a nice flat safe bit that'll become boring really quickly.
Unless you can bring your own nuclear powered SUV with unlimited range to hoon around in. Land safe and then drive to the canyons.
MRO's Hirise has spotted a few underground chambers that might protect against radiation too.
not long to go now...
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I never claimed science as the reason I want to go. I want to go because it'd be cool.
You're also over simplifying the technological obstacles of previous eras of exploration. Yes, the technical challenges were simpler, but so were the solutions available to them. I bet, if there were even a way to begin to calculate it, that the gap between technological challenge and solution is smaller for prospective Martian colonists today than for previous eras of exploration.
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For the record, I think the eventual destruction of the Earth, natural or otherwise, is a valid scientific reason for space exploration.
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Why Mars? Sex in low gravity. Possibly with aliens.
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By the time we get to Mars, I think it's okay to just call Mexicans "people," Dave.
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Fucking liberals! Cold, dead hands, Teague!
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
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I concur with Neil's reaction to the one-way trip concept.
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Ehhh. No thank you. I'm already crazy/depressed/stupid enough here on Earth. I'm sure i wouldn't last long on Mars.
Well, maybe if there were cartoons to watch while I'm there. Then life wouldn't change much.
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