• mech@feddit.orgEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    85% of earth are still completely uninhabited by humans, simply because it’s too inhospitable or not worthwhile to settle there.
    So why would anyone want to settle on Mars?
    Even if something apocalyptic happens on earth, like runaway global warming, the atmosphere and magnetosphere getting stripped away, or a new ice age – It would still be much more hospitable than Mars is.
    When we ever get the tech to terraform Mars, guess what: Then we can use the same tech to fix Earth.
    And when the sun explodes, Mars won’t save us either.

    There is no reasonable justification for putting humans on Mars.

    • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I guess it could be dangerous to terraform a planet while most of the human race lives on it.

      There might be some “in-between” steps that cause a lot of ruin.

      Volcanoes or lethal levels of CO2 for example.

  • ExLisperAEnglish
    5·
    8 days ago

    Looks like shit. Earth blows this dead red rock out of the water, again. No competition.

    Team Earth!

  • udon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    How large would the sun look to the human eye though? It’s tiny on photos, usually appears much bigger