[MeshugeMikey]

who....would ...who in their right mind....would ever want to live on Mars??

and thats just for starters

[Lurker]

This doesn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The same groups that won’t touch GMO corn or wheat or rice want to GMO things to ship to Mars...but which will get out into the environment of Terra Firma.

[a fool in paradise]

So now they WANT to cause man-made global warming?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We don't even know what's there yet, but we know we want to change it.

But here on Earth, nothing to do with climate should ever change, and if it does, somebody has to pay!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

This is not a novel or new idea. Maybe we should first ask the Martians if they want their planet terraformed.

[max americana]

In the manga Terraformars, the insects/terraformers mutated and kill the humans. In the Val Kilmer movie Red Planet, same thing. Maybe this ain’t a good thing.

[Jack Hammer]

Nice.

We’ve f*cked up Earth, but, rather than fix it, we’re going to f*ck up Mars, as well.

No doubt before any settlement takes place, the homosexuals will insist on their right to marry there, and Blacks will insist that all Blacks who live there be given a generous stipend for ‘past racial injustices’ at White expense.

And, of course, the Mexicans will insist they be allowed to immigrate in unlimited numbers without papers.

[Impy]

Haven’t been to the moon in decades, currently don’t have a craft capable of doing THAT. Talking ‘bout terraforming Mars, lol.

Prediction, 100 years from now there still won’t be anyone living on Mars.

[Paladin2]

I thought that a genome is more like layers of an onion instead of just gluing a few genes together.

[Steely Tom]

Arthur C. Clarke first published SF novel, The Sands of Mars, was about precisely this concept. A type of specially-bred plant that could extract oxygen from the soil of Mars was imported to colonists who had set up a base on that planet. This plant needed lots of light to do its work; it got that light from another bit of mega-engineering, which was to set alight Mars's moon Phobos by means of a self-sustaining thermonuclear reaction that turned Phobos into a tiny, intense sun.

The Sands of Mars was published in 1951.

[clearcarbon]

"DARPA Wants to Create Synthetic Organisms to Terraform and Change the Atmosphere of Mars"

Have a nice trip bruce-caitlyn.

[UCANSEE2]

“As a result, they will be able to engineer organisms for much more specific purposes.”

Which is OK until the organisms revolt.

[dfwgator]

Project Genesis.

[Pelham]

quick, somebody notify Art Bell...

[catnipman]

they can terraform it all they want, but Mars is a dead planet with no heat in it’s core and no magnetosphere.

[PLMerite]

Isn't anyone going to ask the Synthetics what they think?

[MaxMax]

Get Your Own Dirt

One day a group of scientists got together and decided
that man had come a long way and no longer needed God.
So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that
they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God
and said,

“God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We’re to
the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous
things, so why don’t you just go on and mind your own business?”

God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After
the scientist was done talking, God said, “Very well, how
about this? Let’s say we have a man-making contest.
”To which the scientist replied, “Okay, we can handle that!”

“But,” God added, “we’re going to do this just like I did
back in the old days with Adam.” The scientist said, “Sure,
no problem” and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.

God looked at him and said, “No, no, no. You go get your own dirt.”

[Organic Panic]

Send transgenders. They can colonize the entire planet and make it just the way they think it should be. Just like themselves. If you believe it enough, it just might come true.

[jimfree]

Genesis Project? Star Trek III: The Search for Spock