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Re: Why go to Mars?
07/21/08 07:40 AM
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First we'll go back to the Moon, and establish a base of sorts there. This will be the proving grounds for long term outposts in low gravity environments where we find what we need there without the need of re-supply ships to keep bringing us what we need. After we get that established, then we start thinking about Mars, the asteroid belt and anything else we can imagine.
The biggest reason for going to mars in my opinion is research on teraforming. We need to start heating up that planet (which we do very well already), and bringing it back from the dead as it were, so we can start to colonize it. The bottom line with the whole Mars vs the asteroid belt is that Mars is larger, closer, and easier than doing something similar on a asteroid.
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