[cliffy]

There's a 0% chance of a successful colony, by any definition of successful, on Mars in the next century. If we, as a species, cannot avoid destroying the climate that birthed us over millions of years we have exactly 0% chance of surviving one that is completely inhospitable to life.

[falcor84]

Not that I have a better estimate, but I'm curious about where you got that 0% from

[sambapa]

You can't learn rocket science if you are too retarded to wipe your ass. So that 0% came from this unwiped ass. Mars colony is impossible, humans are just less retarded monkeys.

[w1nst0nsm1th]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGFEW2Hb2g

[trgn]

It's an irradiated wasteland

[paxys]

There's no chance of a colony of any kind. The bare minimum requirement would be to end dependence on shipping critical materials from Earth, and good luck with making that happen in the next century.

[falcor84]

I'm not following. Are you saying that a colony by definition has to be self-sustaining? Why? At this stage of globalization, what part of Earth is self-sustaining? How certain are you that if the US was suddenly blocked from importing any goods that it would not descend into chaos?

[paxys]

I'm not saying it has to be by definition, but the costs and complications in regularly transporting oxygen, water, food and everything else in cargo ships from Earth simply makes such a colony unrealistic even for a very small number of permanent settlers.