Yes I am referring to the planet Mars. Do you ever wonder about Earth's closest neighbor? NASA science is now beginning to believe that Mars was once a thriving planet very much like Earth with Oceans-Lakes-Rivers-Trees, cities and even People. But if this is true, then what happened to it? Is it possible there were people on Mars once and that they destroyed it, robbing it of it's resources and burning off it's ozone very much like we're doing to Earth? Is it even possible that these people could have been our distance ancestors? When we look at Mars, could we be looking at Earth's future? We are starting to believe that Spaceships have visited earth in the past. The drawings in Peru that can only be seen from the sky, may have been left as a marker for spacecraft. So is it possible that these ships were here to colonize Earth from Mars?

Mars does have an atmosphere like earth, although much less than Earth, and NASA believes there is oxygen as well, but only 1% that of Earth. Mars is half the size of Earth, but may have been larger once. These theories may be far out there, but who's to say until we have a definite answer to Mars and it's history.

Venus is the planet closest to Earth, not Mars.

http://nineplanets.org/

The earth will definitely die out some day. There is no question about it. This is mainly because the sun is a star. All stars eventually die out. Earth can not survive without the sun. When the sun dies, so does the earth. That's not a theory. That's a fact.

^^Thankfully, that will not happen for at least a billion years from now...

^^Thankfully, that will not happen for at least a billion years from now...
Yep, we'll all be LONG dead by that time. I feel sorry for the poor saps who might still be alive a billion years from now.

Yes the Sun will burn out one day in the distant future but what I am saying is Earth may not be a living planet when that happens considering what people are doing to it.

Mars is Earths closest neighbor on life like conditions
In other words. Mars could possibly be made into a living planet if it had help is what NASA believes.

Yep, we'll all be LONG dead by that time. I feel sorry for the poor saps who might still be alive a billion years from now.
speak for yourself, I plan on hanging around.

as for Mars, I don't know what happened - it was right where I left it.

I think it would be too much work to try and terra-form Mars - much easier to just build living colonies there.

^^Thankfully, that will not happen for at least a billion years from now...
Thank the lord for that. I was about to order my coffin.

:lol:

speak for yourself, I plan on hanging around.

as for Mars, I don't know what happened - it was right where I left it.

Amen. And hahaha!:) :cool: ;)

I think it would be too much work to try and terra-form Mars - much easier to just build living colonies there.

Interestingly, terraforming Mars may be possible using technologies we currently have, or which may only be a few years away. There's an ethical dilemma, though, in some ways similar to the colonists coming to the Americas and Australia, displacing the native lifeforms. It's not clear there are any lifeforms on Mars, but since it's been shown that liquid water does flow there, in small amounts, it is within the realm of possibility.

Living colonies on Mars would be one of the first stages, but eventually, I suspect, terraforming will be attempted. The human population will continue to expand, until we can no longer fit comfortably one one planet. Small pod-colonies on Mars wouldn't solve the eventual problem of overpopulation.

One of the big challenges of Martian terraforming is building up the atmosphere, because it's too thin to breathe. Importing hydrogen would help with making it wetter and warmer, which would cause carbon dioxide to be released from the poles, increasing the greenhouse effect and making it warmer still. There would still be issues with low gravity, radiation, low atmospheric pressure, and lack of a large moon to provide tides. Despite this, Mars is one of the best candidates for terraforming: Venus is super-hot, and Jupiter's and Saturn's large moons are much further away from the sun.