Forget about Mars

[dan88911]

I like Bruno Mars.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Wetwork

Space= dumb... until someone figures out how to easily and cheaply get stuff out of Earth's gravity well into orbit.

I'm working on it...

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by jyl

So much for dreams of terraforming Mars, as per Elon Musk and others.

Most of Mars’ atmosphere lost to space, scientists say - SpaceFlight Insider

Mars lost most of its atmosphere, due to not having a sufficient magnetic field to block solar wind from charging atmospheric molecule and carrying them away.

Unclear how one could recreate an entire planet's worth of atmosphere, but if we did, it would be lost as well.

This is news? Venus also does not have a magnetosphere. The lighter elements (hydrogen and oxygen) have been blown out by the solar wind.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by dentist90

The Earth will get along fine without us. Probably better.

Will be a long time before Earth can't support life.

However, mass extinction events are an almost certainty.

There will be several more iterations of life here before being swallowed by the Sun.