Fun rant from By Albert Burneko on how we just ain’t colonizing Mars, ever.
The South Pole is around 2,800 meters above sea level, and like everywhere else on Earth around 44 million miles closer to the sun than any point on Mars. It sits deep down inside the nutritious atmosphere of a planet teeming with native life. Compared to the very most hospitable place on Mars it is an unimaginably fertile Eden. Here is a list of the plant-life that grows there: Nothing. Here is a list of all the animals that reproduce there: None.
Not Wrong!
I also don’t see how we can sustain the difference in gravity which I see as one of the biggest issues. Assuming we can get past living in an arid dustbowl with some sort of terraforming, our muscle mass and skeletal density will crater. We will get sick and die as our bodies rapidly begin to fail. We’re evolved (or created) for here… and every nuance of that is EXTREMELY specific.
The idea just feels like a giant money laundering scam. Clearly “smart” people know this.