2 Earths

[Sixth_Rule]

I was just thinking the other day while reading about the Mars rovers. We send those things to mars because we are generally curious, but there will probably never be any actual benifit.

What if Mars (or Venus) was an Earth Clone. You know a life sustaining carbon rich planet with plants and animals and oceans. It dosn't have to be 80% water or even breathable air but it does have to sustain at least plant life.

Now can you imagin how much our society would benifit from a planet that we absolutly HAVE to explore exploit and populate??

I think over all we would at least have a method of travel between these the planets by now, our space program (and MANY other Technogies that are related) would be leaps and bounds above what they are now.

I think the discovery of the new world was deffinatly a accelerator to the industrial age and an actual new World would have advanced us much more quickly.

[Victor]

it would be sweet if we had some aliens we could subjugate too.

Colonize away!

First reason out of seven that they give:
"1. Its Similarity to Earth

Mars has water, frozen underground and at the polar caps. There is evidence that this water has, in the past and present, flooded the surface in liquid form. Signs of erosion can be found on the slopes of craters and volcanoes. Geological features resembling those on Earth suggest that Mars was once a wet and hospitable planet.

A day on Mars is 24.5 hours long. Mars is a third the size of Earth, but it has as much land area as the seven continents combined. Its gravity is 2.7 times less than that of Earth: enough to remain flat-footed on the surface, but a low enough escape velocity to make launching from Mars relatively simple. Remember, it was much easier for Apollo to lift off from the moon than it was to leave Earth. Construction materials would be lighter as well, facilitating labor in the early colony. The health benefits of such an environment are unknown, but it is theorized that Mars might prevent and relieve forms of arthritis and back pain. Also, Martian-born children would be taller than their Terran cousins.

Both planets have seasons and similar rotational patterns. Mars is roughly in the same heat-range as Earth, being next-door in the solar system, and if it had a thicker atmosphere it is likely the two planets would share the same climate. Today, Mars’s temperature varies from +1°F to -178°F, with an average global temperature of -85°F. That’s cold, but still the solar system’s most hospitable for humans."

http://www.redcolony.com/features.ph...hycolonizemars