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FlamesAddiction · 06-20-2012, 08:31 AM

Serious question, but why not focus attention on underground or ocean colonization before Mars? We have a planet where the most inhabitable areas are quickly becoming over populated. It seems like a waste to put resources into going to Mars when we have a lot of issues that are more local and more pressing.

Maybe building a Mars colony is more feasible... I don't know. Why not build a massive biodome in the Gobi or the arctic first and use it as a giant food bank for starving Africans? $6 billion to go to Mars seems crazy.

(I know... if it's private money, they can do with it what they want, but I think it says a lot about us as a culture and a species)

06-20-2012, 08:31 AM	#15
FlamesAddiction Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Vancouver Exp:	Serious question, but why not focus attention on underground or ocean colonization before Mars? We have a planet where the most inhabitable areas are quickly becoming over populated. It seems like a waste to put resources into going to Mars when we have a lot of issues that are more local and more pressing. Maybe building a Mars colony is more feasible... I don't know. Why not build a massive biodome in the Gobi or the arctic first and use it as a giant food bank for starving Africans? $6 billion to go to Mars seems crazy. (I know... if it's private money, they can do with it what they want, but I think it says a lot about us as a culture and a species) __________________ "A pessimist thinks things can't get any worse. An optimist knows they can." Last edited by FlamesAddiction; 06-20-2012 at 08:33 AM.