Nobody in their right mind wants to go to Mars...

And here's the rest of this story...

 

 

Simply put, "You can't get there from here right now, nor any time soon." Those who are trying to tell you otherwise are simply full of you-know-what.

 

If manned space flights to Mars were all that easy, we wouldn't be spending the better part of three billion to land the Curiosity Rover there to check out the place for us. Anyone with normal vision and a reasonable grasp of reality knows Mars is a frozen, barren wasteland with no visible means of support for humans. End of that story.

 

We've all seen episodes of Star Trek in which someone magically tries terraforming barren bodies in space, miraculously transforming those into lovely earth-like paradises fit for kings and queens, or scantily clad gorgeous women - but the truth is, it's all bullshit, Kiddies. It can't be done because we don't have anything close to the required technology, nor the funding to develop it. And we won't, any time soon.

 

Mars isn't even a complete "planet". It's merely the remnant of one that got nearly completely destroyed about three and a half billion years ago when a large meteoroid about the size of Pluto hit it near its equator, puncturing its crust. Think about that for a moment, and try to picture the kind of explosion that would create within the molten core of Mars when that other frozen body entered it. When that event concluded, and Mars re-assembled its molten parts, one hemisphere rejoined the other, but with a three or four kilometer difference in elevation. What does that suggest to you? To me it suggests that the main body of the planet was torn nearly into two separate parts, but rejoined itself thanks to the forces of gravity, while its molten core parts were still hot enough to weld together again before the inevitable cooling of those now-exposed parts resulted in forming a new surface, now bereft of most of its former hard-surface features like land masses and oceans. Those ended up in the Asteroid Belt and as Comets flying around the system.

 

So why would anyone want to visit the dead remains of a former earth-like planet? Especially when we now have robotic rovers capable of telling us whatever we need to know about it without risking human lives. If we're only half as smart as we think we are, we will stay the hell away from Mars, and let those Rovers do it for us. Why? Because if we can't make a success of peaceful coexistence here, it's highly unlikely the same gang can do it anywhere else.

 

The universe really doesn't need us exporting our same old mistakes elsewhere. That's why God spread everything out far enough apart that one solar system can't easily access another. God already knew what we'd be like.... Putting that another way, "The world is dying, and we're the cancer that's killing it."