Answering the Call

[Masherbrum]

You will live out the rest of your days preparing the colony for future inhabitants.

-Penguin

In 3.5 Billion Years it will have been for naught. 

[Meatwad]

No way, man

To me family is and always will be #1

[fbWldcat]

In 3.5 Billion Years it will have been for naught. 

I thought they had the sun going boom (loosely said) in 5.5 Billion?

[katanaso]

Write down your answers to your dream scenarios, put them somewhere, and when you become an adult in 20-30 years, answer them again to compare how your answers might change.

It's interesting to see how the values of family change as you grow older.

[smoe]

The whole Mars thing seems feasible:

1. Imagine living with 2 people for the rest of your life in a cave.

2. Mars has polar ice caps with solid carbon dioxide, not frozen water like on earth.

3. Has Mars ever been in the Goldilocks zone to support life or will it ever be? Its current mean temperature is: 210 K, -63°C, -81.5°F

4. With the thin atmosphere and the Suns radiation levels on the surface, living on Mars would be about the same as living on Earth's moon. Its mean surface level pressure of 0.087 psi, compared to Earth's sea level average of 14.69 psi.  That means water boils at 0.01°C on the surface of Mars.

[mbailey]

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[Ping]

I guess this is the conversation you would expect from a penguin.

[Penguin]

I guess this is the conversation you would expect from a penguin.

 

-Penguin