For those who don't watch the news because its too liberal: Recently, JPL sent a couple of rovers to Mars in hope to find water. A few month ago, the scientists at JPL has found evidence of water on Mars. With this evidence, there is a possibly to colonize Mars. While, I was watching an "Nova" (I think it was. It was aired before the rover landings, so there was a lot of "if" and "when"s) episode on how they plan to colonize Mars. They talked about creating an bubble dome environment with a community of botanists growing plants. When there is enough oxygen from plants, they'll release it into Mars atmosphere. When there is enough oxygen in the atmosphere, they'll plant trees, shrubs, etc... As to warm the planet, they talked about ways to create an artificial global warming on the planet (like turning on an oven...heat the planet up) until there are stabilize temperatures that plants and humans can survive. Over time, they will ship farmers to grow crops (and miners to mine the minerals).... I know its seems impossible but as great scientists will tell ya in science, there is no such thing as impossible. Every impossible has an possibly. 50 years ago, people thought it was impossible for man to land on the moon....well man did land on the moon!
DR, I noticed you are not very optimistic at impossbility like landing on Mars.... Remember people thought like you did in the last 100 years about airplanes, cars, computers, etc.... People laughed at new ideas they don't understand....I think that is your problem....old fashioned thinking and problem comprehending certain things....
Its funny how y'alls are Bush supporters but unoptimistic about the Mars program. Bush is one of the biggest supporter of the Mars program... I figured if you support Bush, you would support Mars. What a weird bunch this web board have!