I am so tired of hearing about colonizing Mars. I already live on a perfectly good planet. Maybe we don't fuck this one up rather than flee to a fixer-upper.
@ariadne It's such a stupid concept. There's no usable atmosphere on Mars and the conditions are far too harsh for long-term human occupation on it's own. For it to even hypothetically work you'd have to build tons of pressurized climate-controlled pods and domes for people to live in, which they can't possibly leave without putting on a bulky spacesuit. And since travelling to Mars is obviously going to be exorbitantly expensive, the only people that'll ever do it are billionaires.
@ariadne (not including a million other problems with colonizing Mars I'm not even going to begin to get into)