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.
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.
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.