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Originally Posted by DaFace
Theoretically, yes. But I'd be pretty surprised if anyone alive today ever sees more than a handful of people there at a time. It's...not exactly a hospitable place.
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Water is the biggest issue to overcome for space travel.
If Mars doesn't have ice below the surface, the whole idea is dead in the water. Bringing water with us to a "colony" is just not sustainable.
They can make water out of thin air now. Too expensive on earth to be practical. Don't know if its even possible on Mars. The Israelis have been using desalinization to provide water since the 80's. But, that option, as far as I know is not available anywhere near us.
My son did some research in college that maybe as we travel along we could find trapped ice in large meteorites as a solution to providing water for space travel.