Will colonizing mars achieve anything other than allowing space enthusasts to jerk of even though it will be really unlikely that they will be able to step on the red planet themselves?
Anyways, wouldnt only the craziest people willingly volunteer to be sent into such a sterile wasteland? It would take generations for them to achieve anything at all, and they would have to deal with hundreds of problems, including the founder effect and risks of suicide from absolute boredom.
Gabriel Fisher
Is your OP pic from venus?
Carter Collins
I just googled "mars"
Jonathan Wright
>colonizing mars
Jello baby thread?
Jack Stewart
>Boredom >when there's always shit that needs to be done >when you have a full copy of the internet that constantly gets updated they'd have something to do
Liam Wilson
>ywn get to jerk off to trap porn on Mars
Isaac Howard
>mfw marsmemer numales will get 2,000,000ms ping I'll stay on the moon.
Xavier Cook
>such a sterile wasteland I sort of worry about how un-sterile it'll be once people get there.
Parker Turner
>Will colonizing mars achieve anything No.
Space belongs to self sufficient robots and AI, not humans. Only after robots have set up the infrastructure for humans, we can follow them.
Carson Wilson
>blaming ping for your lack of skill
Christian Garcia
>precognition is developed by Martian jello baby colonists while playing Earth and Moon fags on FPS games.
It'll be like the days when dial-up people and high speed net people were playing against each other. The dial-up people had the tactics and the high speed net people had the quick reflexes. The dial-ups could out think the faster people and intuit where people would be in order to kill them. Eventually, the faster people started to learn, but by then the dial-ups were getting faster internet too so it didn't matter.
Christian Gonzalez
I don't think there are colored photographs from the surface of Venus
Nathaniel Hill
>precognition Yeah, I can read my horoscope here, pleb. >muh FPS' Waiting for between 10 and 40 minutes every time you open a site is a fucking pain in the ass. What else will you do on mars, other than browse the net, fag?
Jackson Jenkins
I will set up that infrastructure myself because fuck robots stealing my jobs
Nathaniel Sanchez
you would do your fucking job, it's a colony You'd also have a full archived copy of the internet to read, if you want something specific that for some reason is not there, you learn how to be patient
Earth-Mars connection will be top teir laser comms, so the throughput would be immense, just delayed to all bloody fuck
Luke Morris
>job What fucking job? This isn't total recall. Any colonists reaching Mars in the 2040s will have extreme automation and dried food. I don't see humans having any work to do other than some maintenance/experiments for several hours per day. How will you entertain yourself for another 60 years in this wasteland without internet?
Eli Gray
9222438 >all infrastructure setup is done the second you land and not a second after >no internet Shitposters deserve no (You)s
Automation cannot do everything, and there's a lot of things that need to be done multiple times
Carson Sullivan
>setting up several inflatable habitats requires 60 years of work, 16 hours per day WHOA
Liam Torres
>he fell for the domes on the surface meme fucking brainlets continuous expansion would let work go infinitely You aren't making a shitty ass settlement for 20 the direct goal is to hold and self sufficiently support at least one million people, and that one million will inevitably grow in numbers also >assuming there would be no internet >despite the fact that having enough onsite equipment to hold most of the internet would cost next to fucking nothing
Liam Fisher
>one million people This might easily be the dumbest shit I've read on Veeky Forums today and there's a creationist thread up. Any estimate over tripple-digit population on Mars before 2100 is basically space opera-tier. Back to the gundam general with you.
Brandon Young
round trip to mars and back at speed of light is 44 minutes at worst. That's not a bad wait for an email or to see if someone responded to your shitpost.
Easton Bell
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Bentley White
The founder effect is extremely unkikely I think, this isn't a shitty island in the age of sail. Boredom is also unlikely, the first wave of colonists will probably be composed of highly skilled scientists and technicians, passionate enough to risk their health, so I guess they would be like kids sent to Disneyland for life. As for the long term benefits, I guess it would benefit science and engineering considerably, and maybe provide an economy of its own once mining operations and the like gain momentum (I don't know about the mineral resources on Mars though), also tourism once secure resorts become available for rich fuckers (an extension of the burgeoning space tourism, basically). And of course an increased chance of survival for the human species if and when the Earth gets FUBAR.
Ian Collins
>doesn't realize the joke being made
Autism.
You do know what a colony is right? There will not be any dead weight NEET spaces for you to fill.