It looks like the water problem is solved on Mars.

[Subduction Zone]

If we ever do move to Mars there will be no lack of water:

Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick

The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted.

www.space.com

A European Space Agency (ESA) probe has found enough water to cover Mars in an ocean between 4.9 and 8.9 feet (1.5 and 2.7 meters) deep, buried in the form of dusty ice beneath the planet's equator.

The finding was made by ESA's Mars Express mission, a veteran spacecraft that has been engaged in science operations around Mars for 20 years now. While it's not the first time that evidence for ice has been found near the Red Planet's equator, this new discovery is by far the largest amount of water ice detected there so far and appears to match previous discoveries of frozen water on Mars.

"Excitingly, the radar signals match what we expect to see from layered ice and are similar to the signals we see from Mars' polar caps, which we know to be very ice rich," said lead researcher Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States in an ESA statement.

 

[Stevicus]

lead researcher Thomas Watters

I thought this was funny, the lead researcher on a project examining water on Mars is named Watters.

Perhaps someday, bottled water from Mars will become a delicacy.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I wonder if life exists in the water.

 

[Heyo]

If we ever do move to Mars there will be no lack of water:

Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick

The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted.

www.space.com

A European Space Agency (ESA) probe has found enough water to cover Mars in an ocean between 4.9 and 8.9 feet (1.5 and 2.7 meters) deep, buried in the form of dusty ice beneath the planet's equator.

The finding was made by ESA's Mars Express mission, a veteran spacecraft that has been engaged in science operations around Mars for 20 years now. While it's not the first time that evidence for ice has been found near the Red Planet's equator, this new discovery is by far the largest amount of water ice detected there so far and appears to match previous discoveries of frozen water on Mars.

"Excitingly, the radar signals match what we expect to see from layered ice and are similar to the signals we see from Mars' polar caps, which we know to be very ice rich," said lead researcher Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States in an ESA statement.

Now we only have to bring enough poop to grow potatoes and we're good.

 

[exchemist]

I thought this was funny, the lead researcher on a project examining water on Mars is named Watters.

Perhaps someday, bottled water from Mars will become a delicacy.

Yes! Great example of nominative determinism.

 

[Revoltingest]

Now we only have to bring enough poop to grow potatoes and we're good.

The movie ignored the fact that Mars's soil is poisonous.
It isn't even really "soil".

Martian soil - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Moon is a far better candidate for colonization.

 

[Heyo]

The movie ignored the fact that Mars's soil is poisonous.
It isn't even really "soil".

Martian soil - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I knew, but couldn't resist.

The Moon is a far better candidate for colonization.

Who wants to live on the Moon (or Mars for that matter)?

The Moon is a much better candidate for exploitation. Mine the **** out of that rock and build space stations with it, where you can have all the (fake) gravity you want and have a constant supply of energy from the sun. Now, that are liveable conditions.

 

[Revoltingest]

Who wants to live on the Moon (or Mars for that matter)?

Adventurers.

The Moon is a much better candidate for exploitation. Mine the **** out of that rock and build space stations with it, where you can have all the (fake) gravity you want and have a constant supply of energy from the sun. Now, that are liveable conditions.

People can still live on the Moon more easily than on Mars.
Ease of transport is the over-whelming reason.

 

[Stevicus]

Adventurers.

People can still live on the Moon more easily than on Mars.
Ease of transport is the over-whelming reason.

I'm not sure if it's that easy.

And then there are those zero gravity toilets. I guess it's kind of a different experience when pooping in space, from what I've heard.

 

[Heyo]

Adventurers.

People can still live on the Moon more easily than on Mars.
Ease of transport is the over-whelming reason.

Yep, and the same goes for exploitation. The longer travel time to Mars (under heavy radiation) isn't made up by additional gravity and a more comfortable day length.
(But that is really comfortable, even better than on Earth.)

 

[ChristineM]

I'm not sure if it's that easy.

And then there are those zero gravity toilets. I guess it's kind of a different experience when pooping in space, from what I've heard.

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I got to the zero g toilet too late. While reading the instructions i had a minor leakage. Please to not drink the floating liquid ball's.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm not sure if it's that easy.

And then there are those zero gravity toilets. I guess it's kind of a different experience when pooping in space, from what I've heard.

View attachment 87175

Perhaps you missed a word.
"more easily" =/= "easily"
Are you arguing that Mars would be easier...or just arguing?

 

[Revoltingest]

Yep, and the same goes for exploitation. The longer travel time to Mars (under heavy radiation) isn't made up by additional gravity and a more comfortable day length.
(But that is really comfortable, even better than on Earth.)

Higher gravity is better for humans on the surface,
but it works against transport, which is necessary
for exploitation & keeping the humans alive.

 

[sayak83]

I thought this was funny, the lead researcher on a project examining water on Mars is named Watters.

Perhaps someday, bottled water from Mars will become a delicacy.

You just gave Elon Musk his next start-up idea.....

 

[Heyo]

Higher gravity is better for humans on the surface,
but it works against transport, which is necessary
for exploitation & keeping the humans alive.

The absence of an atmosphere on Luna helps with that, too.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

If we ever do move to Mars there will be no lack of water:

Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick

The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted.

www.space.com

A European Space Agency (ESA) probe has found enough water to cover Mars in an ocean between 4.9 and 8.9 feet (1.5 and 2.7 meters) deep, buried in the form of dusty ice beneath the planet's equator.

The finding was made by ESA's Mars Express mission, a veteran spacecraft that has been engaged in science operations around Mars for 20 years now. While it's not the first time that evidence for ice has been found near the Red Planet's equator, this new discovery is by far the largest amount of water ice detected there so far and appears to match previous discoveries of frozen water on Mars.

"Excitingly, the radar signals match what we expect to see from layered ice and are similar to the signals we see from Mars' polar caps, which we know to be very ice rich," said lead researcher Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States in an ESA statement.

Wonder if there are microbes that, after colonization begins and people drink it the microbes take over and turn them into demon like thingies and a real life Doom/Quake event begins.

 

[Stevicus]

Perhaps you missed a word.
"more easily" =/= "easily"
Are you arguing that Mars would be easier...or just arguing?

I was looking at the phrase "ease of transport."

What makes you think that I'm arguing at all?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Wonder if there are microbes that, after colonization begins and people drink it the microbes take over and turn them into demon like thingies and a real life Doom/Quake event begins.

Zombie human Martians....

If it can happen to a bug, it can happen to humans!

 

[Revoltingest]

I was looking at the phrase "ease of transport."

What makes you think that I'm arguing at all?

The arguing.

 

[Regiomontanus]

If we ever do move to Mars there will be no lack of water:

Water ice buried at Mars' equator is over 2 miles thick

The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted.

www.space.com

A European Space Agency (ESA) probe has found enough water to cover Mars in an ocean between 4.9 and 8.9 feet (1.5 and 2.7 meters) deep, buried in the form of dusty ice beneath the planet's equator.

The finding was made by ESA's Mars Express mission, a veteran spacecraft that has been engaged in science operations around Mars for 20 years now. While it's not the first time that evidence for ice has been found near the Red Planet's equator, this new discovery is by far the largest amount of water ice detected there so far and appears to match previous discoveries of frozen water on Mars.

"Excitingly, the radar signals match what we expect to see from layered ice and are similar to the signals we see from Mars' polar caps, which we know to be very ice rich," said lead researcher Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States in an ESA statement.

Yes, so if we rape the planet, duh, we can get the water we need for a limited number of humans to live there. The question, though, is should we rape another planet for our short term economic gain? Or perhaps get our **** together here first?