A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help researchers better understand the appropriate conditions …
We can’t even look after earth. Why are we trying to colonise another planet??
We can’t even look after earth.
You seem to have answered your own question.
There is nothing short of the moon falling to the Earth that can make Mars a more viable place for humans than the Earth.
No colonising please. Leave that nonsense to the Age of Sail. By all means, have a science outpost but no permanent and growing settlements, no terraforming, no farming, no mining. We have our own planet and other worlds are not our “manifest destiny to conquer”. We must be the Watchers, not the Contangion. Humanity should go to the stars to explore but not to destroy it in our image. Create any permanent settlements on Mars and wars and misery will soon follow.
Presumably some of them would have to be female, making a Mars colony settled entirely by muskies unviable.
I saw a documentary about this - you actually only need one person as long as they like eating potatoes
They need Ice Cube incase there is a ghost on mars
