Will we be on Mars in 2066?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Elok
I forget: why do we want to leave this planet exactly?

Cuz you suck.

[chequita guevara]

We'll have science stations, but no permanent settlements.

[Kuciwalker]

Looking at the very long term, though, it could be possible to reposition the planets.

Um, no.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

Looking at the very long term, though, it could be possible to reposition the planets.

Um, no.

Here's the first article I could find on the topic. This one deals primarily with moving the Earth, but mentions moving other planets. Note the part where it reads "[it could] even allow our descendants to alter our Solar System to move moons and planets to make new Earths"

I can find other articles talking about moving other planets for you tomorrow, if you'd like.

[Lancer]

I'll be climbing outa this gravitational ****hole in the arms of angels before another non Chinese human being walks once again upon the moon, yeah baby!

[Sir Og]

No, because we don't need to be there. We can keep sending robots there (if we need something done on the ground) and build a massive space station in earth orbit with all the $ saved.

[realpolitic]

Originally posted by Elok


No, wait: we'll invent Warp Drive and magically bend several light-years of space so we can fly quickly to all the viable planets out there, which we will definitely be able to identify from here by some process other than elimination.

Here's what NASA says about warp drive:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/warp.html

[realpolitic]

While we're at it here's an article on Relativity Drive:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19125681.400;jsessionid=NMGHK