Living on Mars

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If you could live on Mars, would you go? For me, even if it meant being away from the Earth for the rest of my life, living on provisions for the first few months, growing food in a greenhouse and for the rest of my life eating only vegetables, I would go. I would gladly go. It may be less wonderful than the Earth with so much water and everything else, but Mars is still beautiful even so. And living in an environment that has dangers is nothing truly new for any of us. Anyone who lives in a city risks gunshots and car accidents, and so many other random possibilities of instant death, but living on Mars the threats aren't random but constant and you know how to counter them. You wear pressure suits to go outside, you put sandbags on your habitat to protect from radiation, you start your food growing ahead of time so that you have continuous crops of food as you need it, you basically think ahead and deal with the dangers before you face them. I much rather deal with mere natural phenomena than with people myself, and Mars is a cool world even in addition to being currently uninhabited. It has a valley that's as wide as the United States, it has the tallest mountain in the solar system, it has water throughout the permafrost and the temperature and pressure range would allow the triple point of water to be observed, it has two moons - although really they are asteroids - which later could be turned into orbital cities and spaceports, it has all the resources to support industry, it has a 25° axial tilt and a 24 hour and 39 minute day; Mars is a cool planet and I want to live there.

The complete isolation would drive me up the wall.

Just because I'm not good at dealing with people doesn't mean I don't want them around me. I crave human contact (in small groups) and living on a different planet could make that quite difficult.

i would certainly love to live there for the rest of my life. no doubt.

Living on another planet is not synonymous with living alone any more than living on an island means one is Robinson Crusoe. One can be alone on Earth too, or be around others, but for me living away from the cities and the rotten politics of Earth would be nice. Loads of people moved to settle new frontiers previously, but now what was once frontier has become city or controlled by cities and states. Eventually even Mars will fill up, but not anytime soon as that would take centuries even if completely habitable now, but when it does space is full of yet more frontiers to expand into.

Honestly, it would be incredibly tough. The harshest desert on Earth in winter is far more hospitable than the warmest, wettest place on Mars.

The average temperature of -128C has kept me away from the travel agents so far :S

As an early settler, no. Too rough of living conditions, and too much manual labor.

When I can take my cats, get my own apartment, buy all the beef & bacon I want, and there's a booming Martian pharmaceutical industry developing amphetamine variants & new meds handy for mitigating executive dysfunction (not to mention a domestic computer industry, so I can have a job), I'll think about it. Show me the Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Dominos, Papa Johns, BK, Wendys, McDonalds, Jack in the Box, and Olive Garden, and I'll seriously start shopping for a condo nearby. Oh, and make sure I can get Fancy Feast Elegant Medleys Bluefin Tuna, and Best Feline Friend Tuna & Tilapia Twosome... my kitties are pickier about their food than I am

I can't imagine there would be anything to do on Mars, so no.

I'd miss the beach and the ocean. So,no.

No. I would never leave Earth.

I wouldn't want to live on Mars in its current state. Maybe if there were some plants growing on it naturally.

I'd go because one, the tech to make Mars habitable would be contemporary, very contemporary and I'd like to get some of that. Two, our planet is all politics now, a new society would only need what we call internal politics which generally run smoothly (no war) and finally, there is a lot to discover on mars, fresh science is always a dealbreaker.

Yes, but it's not impossible to live there as it is on the planet Venus and it's warmer than Titan or Pluto and Mars is more geologically stable than Io. If one has the proper equipment and know how to maintain their habitat and whatnot, then Mars is livable. It requires patience and prudence and diligence, but it can be done. The people that it will attract are those with those qualities and those who are comfortable living surrounded by millions of others in tiny apartments and loads of other crap can freely stay on Earth. Mars is the next frontier, it is the next land to be pioneered, and yes there will be dangers but it's worth it to me.