If you could emigrate to Mars, but could never come back to Earth, would you go?

[PLATO]

I would love the challenge of taming a planet! BUT, Smiley's requirement would be a must!

[Al'Kimiya]

HELL YES!

One cannot get too much red dust and rocks.

[mrmitchell]

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.

[Space05us]

I like Earth just fine thanks. However if I were forced to go to Mars (provided it was habitable) I wouldn't resist.

[Joseph]

At my age, I would go in a hearth beat.

[TCO]

HELL NO. NO CHIKAS THERE. aND CRAPY DIALUP CONNECTION

[Skanky Burns]

Depends on the number of females also moving there...

[Ted Striker]

but they got verizon wireless on mars

"can you hear me now? GOOD!"

[Agathon]

I'd selflessly give up my seat so that Bush could go.

[TCO]

dEAN IS ALREADY THERE.

[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?

[Drake Tungsten]

dEAN IS ALREADY THERE.

[KrazyHorse]

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

[KrazyHorse]

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.

[KrazyHorse]

rms velocity of O2 at room temperature is something like 400 metres/sec

escape velocity of moon is 11 000 m/s