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In reply to the discussion: We should have been colonizing the solar system by now. [View all]a geek named Bob
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"Never Thirst..." (I think that was the quote Heinlein used. It's late, so I'm slow...)
I've always wanted to go to Mars. Fresh technical challenges, room for experimental societies, and an abundance of ability to build interesting cities. The usual boogeymen of terrorists, and hostile invasion are greatly lessened. as a person interested in the old Polynesian God Tanga-Roa, going somewhere to settle a new place sounds interesting. As a rocketry devotee for over 35 years, I want to stretch my talents to build a few things. As Maker and a reader of the Old School of SF, I want to build Bradbury's "chess-like" cities. (In reality, they likely wouldn't the the blue white he envisioned. More likely, they'd be greenish, to capture solar energy.)
There's also the life boat effect, to avoid the social/political/existential problems of/on Earth.
My two cents.
P.S. As a person with multiple trauma injuries, lower gravity sounds LOVELY.