Let me propose that Mars was once Earth like and was used up of all its natural resources. Our great ancestors then traveled from Mars to what is now Earth and began a new civilization. Due to the limitations of interplanetary travel they could only bring a certain amount of equipment, etc. Now let us just say that due to the destruction they brought Mars by pollution, waste, etc they decided to only transport the bare essentials for life and skip the technological advances. Of course this journey would be one way with no opportunity for return. Viola, here we are hundreds of thousands of years later faced with the same self destructive habits our ancestors once had. If this is true, we may be too smart for our own good and everything we create has disastrous consequences resulting in our imminent demise. Not trying to be negative, just a thought that occurred to me. Anyone else?
Any technology which allows for the transportation of any society, no matter how nominal the size, would certainly permit the transportation of said technology. Sorry. We evolved here. Now, will we get there? Hopefully in my lifetime! ~String
1: Our DNA is comparable with every other organism on Earth. Why? 2: We show clear anatomical, behvioural and genetic similarities with the primates, which clearly evolved on Earth. How do you account for that? 3: The evidence is clear that Mars has been in its present condition for billions of years. What were we doing for all that time?
Even if people had turned Mars into a desert with no plants, where did its air and water go? I heard that life here might have started with bugs and virus carried over from Mars billions of years back, but it probably wasnt delibrate.
Mars was cheated by the accretion disk...iron core way too small...and forget about tera-forming for a civilization. Good sci-fi though...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
ah come on where's your sence of doing the imposible and playing god where you ad it sure it's possible
It would be foolish to make a one-way trip from one planet to another. Something almost certainly would go wrong, eventually, and so we had better be able to go back for parts or materials or something. Well unless you want to send far cheaper sacrificial robots, to scout out things for us? But in the past, there has been one-way trips from the Old World to the New World. Could that perhaps be a "precedent?"
Well , that isn't the consensus of every scientist that has studied Mars to date. I guess that you really don't read up on what is there and what was there that has been determined by leading scientists during the past say 50 years or so. True, science fiction writers would have a great time with exactly what you say, as they already have done, but the truth still remains that we evolved from Earth not Mars. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"We" already are there! If you mean humans themselves perhaps in another 40 years or more after humans learn how to do allot better with safety, design, speed and long term space radiation shielding.
