Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study

Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by throwaway8879 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:23AM (#18281420)

This sounds like a short-lived view to me and the exact kind of sentiment I hear in the climate-change skeptic circles. It is one thing to have a handful of humans survive in an underground bunker somewhere, and a whole different thing to have the species colonize the Galaxy. One is barely surviving and the other is thriving.

You cannot deny that our best bet for long-term survival is to get off this planet. Musk is perhaps a rich idiot, as you put it, but at least he has the right vision.

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Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by rohit2412 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:27PM (#18286049)

I am saying that building a self sustaining pod on earth should be the first step. Not going to mars and establishing a settlement utterly dependent on earth for resources.

And when such pods are built, and self sustaining technology mastered, what use is mars really? Why not make big self sustaining spaceships? What do you really need a planet for?

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Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by notheruser on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:40AM (#18283262)

The universe will end eventually and our species will die. Dreaming of keeping the species going is kind of pointless.

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