Mars

Certain fans of the Flaming Patriot have recently complained that I haven't been posting often enough lately. My apologies. I've actually been busy doing a lot of thinking. Specifically, I've been thinking a lot about colonizing Mars. Unpatriotic, you say? America is the greatest place in the world, why would you ever go live anywhere else?!


Well, for one thing, we're talking about the UNIVERSE. Not the world. I bet naysayers said the same thing to the pilgrims. And remember how everyone told Columbus that he was going to fall off the edge of the world? Wrong. Mars might be awesome. You've never been there, so you don't know.


Of course, you would probably die on Mars. But, what if the human race had the opportunity to colonize mars during our lifetimes? Just assume that it was somehow feasible for humans to survive there, but we needed people to go there and figure out how to do it. Also assume that travel between earth and mars wasn't possible, but you can have all normal communication with earth (skype, iphone, youtube, the lifetime network, tmz, etc.). Would you do it?

Fun to think about, huh? If mars is too far for you, what about the moon? Most people I have bounced this idea off off claim that the moon is more awesome than mars. Others have said that you would be better off to colonize Siberia. Siberia sounds lame. Count me in for Mars.