Some of you may be young enough to make the move someday

http://videos.komando.com/

Why would we colonize the moon, when Mars is the best possible choice right now for colonization? Weird. Would be nice to live on another planet, and call a friend back on Earth: Me: "Hey how are you doing?" Friend: "Doing good, heard you moved. Where'd you move to?" Me: "Moved to Mars, it's awesome here." Friend: "Mars? Nice!"

I think that we need a colony there as a jumping off point to move to Mars.

AJ

I'll take uhh.. staying on the Earth for now.


By the way, did you guys know the Moon is almost HALF the size of Earth? It never gets portrayed that way though. I guess being ~200,000+ miles away makes it seem really small.

That would be one hell of a phone bill. lol

They're just starting off big first, then moving to something really big. They need a close to home test bed first for testing of needed life sustaining things such as growing food, producing their own water and oxygen, etc., as getting a steady supply from Earth would be too expensive and very impractical for sustained living off world. In short they need to be completely self sufficient without needing constant life lines from Earth.

Also with the moon being so much closer it's possible a rescue mission could be launched if something went wrong like a broken return vehicle, if that were on Mars they'd be screwed.

I watched that NatGeo program, and it was rather interesting, perhaps somewhat bold however it will one day be a necessity if an asteroid or comet hits the Earth, or a super volcano erupts devastating life world wide there could at least be Earthlings elsewhere in the solar system who could later re-colonize the Earth. Oh how nice it would've been to be born some thousands of years in the future!

I just hope I'm not on this shuttle on the way there

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31996266/ns/te..._science-space/

Hazelnut I think a broken device like that would result into a scrubbed mission, then again there's always the vacuum of space.

Hahaha! Nice link Hazel!

If you believe in reincarnation there's no need to worry, you'll be back someday.

I don't actually, and with everyone being so green we may be the organic recycled compounds of a space vehicle dashboard, or worse the seat cushion, or the fossil fuel in the distant future.

Or, more likely; Soylent Green!

Oh no, I much prefer this Soilent Green instead.