Huge Mars Colony Eyed by SpaceX Founder Elon Musk

SPACE.com ^ | Date: 23 November 2012 Time: 07:00 AM ET | Rob Coppinger,

[montag813]

All we need are some Hortas and we’re set!!!

Now THAT'S what Musk should be investing in: bioengineering a Horta. That and finding dilithium crystals.

[rfreedom4u]

rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane.

I suggest they take plenty of beans to eat on the way there. Then they can produce some of their own fuel.

[BenLurkin]

There’s a plan for that...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2962433/posts

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Just don’t let him have any dogs up there.”

Will the solar system police show up and shoot it?

[Jack Hydrazine]

“who would journey to the Red Planet aboard a huge reusable rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane.”

Does SpaceX plan to use all that non-existent methane on Mars that Curiosity can’t detect?

[faithhopecharity]

For his dinner, yes

[calex59]

If the prospect of using such chemical means to produce large amounts of water is deemed to be too impractical, it would not be unreasonable to redirect the orbital path of a comet or water rich asteroid to impact on Mars and thereby resupply Mars with seas of water.

You really think we have the ability to divert the path of a comet? And even if we could the reason Mars has no surface water is the fact the atmosphere is so thin that the water has either frozen or evaporated at a high rate. New water would evaporate just as fast as the old water did.

To make Mars livable, truly livable, we would have to somehow reinstate a liquid core(molten of course)in the center of the planet thereby re-establishing the magnetic field that would allow the atmosphere to become heavier. With our present technology I don't think this is feasible.