Colonizing Mars

1. Once again I have said that this spending would be done gradually and responsibly, we'll fit it into the budget. You have failed to address this but instead just keep saying that we're in debt and the economy sucks. That's great, we still manage to spend billions on useless programs so I think its safe to say that we'd be able to budget int the start of a program that will benefit all mankind. 2. Okay fair enough, you should have clarified earlier. Either way, the US is the country that put a man on the moon in less than 10 years. If we put our minds to it we can do anything. Certainly it would cost money but there are potential benefits that will outweigh any initial start up costs. Think of this program as a business, there are always seemingly overwhelming starting costs when a business starts up but then the costs come down as it developes. The same would be true for a colony. Once people started investing in the program, mining started to happen on Mars as the whole thing started coming together it would begin to alieviate the costs until someday it might even be self sufficient or even turning a profit. 3. You yourself were the one who said that they had fixed it, not I. I merely said that if a group of scientists were to work on it they would get it to work but in defense of your question once again (for the second time) I will say this program hasn't been tested because at this present time in our world there is no need to test it because there are no space colony projects in the works. There is no reason for us to test this right now but if we had a reason to do so we would. 4. Yes, but once again such living areas would not be compatible with human survival, look at places like India and Sudan where population density is extremely high, poverty and disease run rampart while the land is utterly destroyed. Point in case, according to my previous UN document the world's population would be 36 billion in 2300. There is no way that 36 billion people can all live like they do in NYC. There would be fighting, disease, crime, poverty and eventually the whole system would break down. Let's prevent having to even think about such a miserable solution and work on expanding upwards and outwards to the stars.5. Like your previous argument about the biodome, we haven't done anything because we have not been put in the position to do anything. We do not have a moon colony or even a moon program so it is absurd of you to ask why we are not mining on the moon. That is akin to me asking you why you haven't started your doctorate thesis paper yet when you haven't even graduated high school yet. You may certainly have the capability of writing such a thesis but you are not in the position to do so right now. Same goes for space mining. We have the capability but are not in the position to do so. 6. This treaty doesn't say that there cannot be any space colonization, it merely says space cannot be claimed or conquered by a nation. This is easily remedied. While the US would spearhead and run the Marsian colony project it would be done for and in the name of mankind. It would be a peaceful venture to benefit all of humanity and therefore is in compliance with this treaty. It would be treated the same way we treat Antarctica, where no one really owns anything but countries set up peaceful bases for study. 7. I cannot respond the the unproffesional use of "???". If you have a question ask, if not please state your case. 8. If you actually read the articles you posted (which by your assertion it is clear that you did not and I invite any readers to click the links and spend just a minute glancing through the actual material) you will see that the article does not say sex in space is not possible but merely says that it has never happened due to the proffessional and scientific nature of space flight. This argument is thereby dead. Sex is in no way tied to gravity. The articles merely say that sex in space has never been tried because of the nature of space travel today. All accurately refuted.