Originally Posted by cmac2012

Oh yeah. I, for one, will not rest until men (and woman) are residing on Mars so that we can ship water and oxygen to them at great expense to keep them alive.

The very integrity of the human species depends on us living on a planet where solar rays will slowly cook us and where we can ponder at length the incredibly random coincidence that such planets as earth come into being amidst the vast quantities of space dust that is utterly dead, from all indications.

I see no reason in remaining on a planet that has the proper air pressure, air mixture, temperatures, and food stuffs that our bodies require (oddly enough, as our precursors evolved in that approximate mix for untold millions of years) when we could instead relocate to a planet that will probably not have such things between now and the time the sun goes super-nova, projected by some to occur in 14 billion years.

ONWARD!!