Quote from: CarDioLogic on December 31, 2017, 03:39:06 PM

Quote from: the artful bodger on December 31, 2017, 01:56:57 AM

Quote from: CarDioLogic on December 31, 2017, 01:28:52 AM

Quote from: the artful bodger on December 31, 2017, 01:19:40 AM

Mars looks like an awful place to live in. There's nothing there but an endless reddish dusty wasteland. I doubt many people could face spending the rest of their lives on it. Colonizing mars with a significant population needs a significant number of people to volunteer to go there, and I doubt there will be enough volunteers.

I think there is already many volunteers that are being tested to determine which ones get to go to Mars.

Yes but to make a significant population on mars needs tens of thousands of suitable volunteers and I'd be surprised if that number of people want to spend their entire lives there.

Some might be born there, and if interplanetary travel is improved they might not have to spend their whole lives in Mars. And i would expect the first jobs in Mars to be very well paid. And life on Mars might not be so bad in the future, daily life will be improved over the years to be similar to earth (same TV shows, internet, varieties of food grown on mars).
I believe it is possible. And that we will be an interplanetary species some day and even beyond that. We will find a way.

After all, humanity can't stay in the solar system forever and survive. We live in a global village, but i believe that we will as a race, expand trougthout the galaxy to the point where you would need a 1000 lifetimes to reach the farthest colony from earth.

I believe earth, in the future (when life here is no longer possible), will always be remembered as the mother of humanity and people will wonder about us who lived here on earth. We will find other life forms, i believe, but which ones from earth should we take with us? Is it possible to build a Noah's ark? Will some humans stay in earth (ghost town planet) and the solar system until their end and die along with it?

Will bitcoin or any other decentralized currency be regarded as currency in that world?
I will stop ranting now.

I agree with you that the first jobs on Mars will pay a lot. It is a very niche thing.