Humans living on Mars could potentially turn green, biologist warns

[UM-Bot]

Creating a colony on Mars would not only be technologically challenging, but also biologically taxing as well.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/381231/humans-living-on-mars-are-likely-to-turn-green-biologist-warns

[Waspie_Dwarf]

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For some time now, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been talking about sending shiploads of over one-hundred passengers at a time to Mars in an effort to found a thriving colony there, but it seems that he has given little thought to just how difficult it would be to actually survive on the surface of another world.

This sums up exactly my thoughts on the matter. I absolutely agree with Musk that, in the long term, mankind must become multi-planetary to survive. I do worry that he's rushing things. He doesn't seem to be taking into account the human factor. It won't do him, or SpaceX much good if he sends hundreds of people to Mars and they all die (I suspect it will be lawyers that end up gaining). His rush to get humans on Mars in just 4 years stands a good chance of getting someone killed. He has developed the technology, and has done it very well, but now it's time to slow down a little and concentrate on safety.

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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

- Jeff Goldblum's character Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

[Abramelin]

3 hours ago, UM-Bot said:

Creating a colony on Mars would not only be technologically challenging, but also biologically taxing as well.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/381231/humans-living-on-mars-are-likely-to-turn-green-biologist-warns

Humans overthere will probably also become shorter in time.

Short, green.... the little green men from Mars...

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[jethrofloyd]

Hmm...Matt Damon in the "Martial" movie didn't  turned green when they forgot him, and left him alone on the Mars.

[Ell]

46 minutes ago, jethrofloyd said:

Hmm...Matt Damon in the "Martial" movie didn't  turned green when they forgot him, and left him alone on the Mars.

If he had died over there, though, his corpse might have turned green from a green mold growing on it.

[jethrofloyd]

16 minutes ago, Ell said:

If he had died over there, though, his corpse might have turned green from a green mold growing on it.

Yes probably, but the title of the thread is Humans LIVING on  Mars, not Humans DYING on Mars.... could potentially turn green.

[Ell]

Humans living on Mars could potentially turn purple if they formed a symbiosis with coralline algae.

[Ell]

It has occurred to me that robots sent to Mars would not turn green unless they painted themselves green.

Neither would they die on Mars, not being alive.

[Portre]

Why green? Envy for those who remain on Earth?

[Hawken]

A low gravity environment might make us spindlier.

[Hankenhunter]

This isn't the first time he's "scheduled" a colony ship to Mars. I doubt this one will pan out either. 

[MrAnderson]

1 hour ago, Hankenhunter said:

This isn't the first time he's "scheduled" a colony ship to Mars. I doubt this one will pan out either. 

The problem with space exploration and planet exploration is that these projects are very hard to achiive their objectives, they cost a fortune, and results are not guaranteed. There is a good probability they will fail too.

How can anyone be dreaming of going to Mars when in reality the moon program was abandoned in 1972 and we haven't been to the moon since then. We have to do it from the beginning all over again and NASA has been planning to go back in the next I don't know how many years. The realisation is that we can't even go to the moon let alone colonise Mars.