Does anyone have any desire whatsoever to live on Mars ?

[LaurieFairyCake]

I really, really don’t. I have no interest in even going into space never mind travelling to another planet.

I struggle to go to the corner shop

Hell no

Maybe if it was made of Mars?

I would miss trees I think.

If the day comes where we all had the choice of burning here on earth, or evacuating to Mars, I’d rather stay here with my fan and hope for the best.

Nope

No.
I’d rather live in prehistoric Britain.

Got visions of your fan saying ‘you go girl.’

This is Mn, OP, disproportionately inhabited by people who come in at 5.30 and put on their pyjamas, thereby declaring the day is over, and no further leaving the house will be happening.

In Becky Chambers' Wayfarers( cosy sci-fi) series, part of the backstory is that when earth started becoming polluted and uninhabitable due to global warming, the rich minority all migrated to Mars and founded a colony there, leaving the poor to survive as best they could. Eventually, when it became clear that there wasn't much habitable time left, the population of earth dismantled the remaining cities and built a fleet of enormous space ships in low orbit, launched them into space containing the remaining population, drifted for several generations living on food raised on the ships, before running into an alien species and eventually being given a spare sun to orbit their ships around. And it took many years for the Martian humans and the spacefleet humans to reconcile.

Depends. Does it have an M&S?

I wouldn't mind living in a Mars Bar if that helps.

Depends. Terraformed with an atmosphere maybe but not domes and tunnels (been reading the Expanse books lately). Would miss green growing things if the latter option.

Glad it’s not just me, we can have our own wee club of things to do here when the rest fuck off 😂

FigCherry - I properly laughed at that

No. Imagine never feeling fresh air again. Never feeling the sun on your face. Never going swimming again. Living in the knowledge that you could die any time if the habitat pods fail or knowing that if there was a fire, you couldn't get out.

You can't set foot on Mars without a full space suit, you'd be exposed to a little more than hard vacuum as the atmosphere is so thin.

Mars has less than one percent of Earth's pressure at sea level. No magnetic field, not for billions of years. Even if we attempted terraforming and introduced oxygen, no magnetic field means it will never be able to hold anything but the thinnest atmosphere, nothing that could ever be breathable.

Solar winds, dust storms, little protection from solar radiation. That long in space to get there pretty much guarantees kidney failure. Doesn't seem like much of a life to me.

I've watched The Martian and nothing would entice me to live there. might be ok in Star Trek time but not yet

If we can't fix the earth, which we are designed to live on, we won't be able to evacuate to Mars. I'm sitting here with a fan too.

It's a vanity project for idiots! Like a child who's broken a toy and wants to buy a new one instead of fixing the one they have.

No chance

Breaks my heart anyone thinks Mars is the answer. Earth has everything we need, and stunning beauty too. I'd rather die than leave.

It has to be an improvement on the town I live in 😆

I don’t care about space at all. I’m never gonna go, nobody I know is ever gonna go…it’s a big nothing in my head really. It also sounds boring as fuck 🤣

Sounds like a rich person's vanity project

I will happily work on planning and preparation (for pay of course) but I'm not going

Do I get to choose the other people who are there with me? If so, maybe.

Currently writing an essay about the legal Implications of this.

I conclude that it would be worth it to get away from Farage, Trump and middle lane hoggers.

It might appeal to the mumsnetters that never answer the door or talk to anyone.

Not at all

Not. At. All. Most of all the thought of living in a scenario where the outside or any number of things going wrong could kill you instantly - that would have to be awful for your mental state living like that your entire life.