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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by babyrainbow on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:06PM (#14573712)
>If your on mars you also know exactly what you're going to face. The temperature, lack of significant atmosphere, and dust storms. That's pretty much it. You can prepare. On earth you don't know what's going to happen next...

Is Mars somehow immune to volcanos and asteroids?

Man some people really want to get off this planet! Earth has given birth and sustained life for so long, and now earth is "unpredictable"!

No comments about your other "arguments".

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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by gpm on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:06PM (#14573902)
Volcanoes, yes. There is no molten core.

Asteroids, no, but it is likely more immune to long term dust clouds in the atmosphere as a result (since the atmosphere is so thin). On the other hand dust storms are similar.

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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by babyrainbow on Saturday June 17, 2017 @01:17AM (#14574407)
> Volcanoes, yes. There is no molten core.

Seems like we are not really sure about that...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11962-lab-study-indic...

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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by gpm on Saturday June 17, 2017 @06:14AM (#14575137)
That's interesting. Still no volcanoes (or other seismic activity) has been observed on mars, so it's pretty safe to say it's not something to worry about.
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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by babyrainbow on Saturday June 17, 2017 @06:48AM (#14575245)
> That's interesting. Still no volcanoes (or other seismic activity) has been observed on mars, so it's pretty safe to say it's not something to worry about.

I am not sure. Can you say how we have been looking for seismic/volcanic activity on mars.

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