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Wouldn't it be just as easy to pour the beer yourself? I mean, technology is great, and it helps us do a lot of cool things, but technology for its own sake is just a waste of time, in my opinion.

Colonising mars will eventually be scientifically possible, as there is ice that could be melted for water, and oxygen could be easily creating by running electric currrent through water, separating it into hydrogen and oxygen. Food could then be grown on mars (on a vegetarian diet of course), and when there were enough plants to produce sufficient oxygen through photosynthesis, we could stop splitting water. However having a colony of only 30 people for several years would almost certainly lead to intense cabin fever, as the people on mars would have little contact with earth. Then people would start killing people, and we would have to either bring them home or leave them all to die a lonely death. For a mission that would take a few years, and then return to earth, i would sign up (im 16 now, would turn 38 in 2030, and by then 40 will be the new 30, so it should be ok). But for a one way ticket, im not willing to pay the price of insanity.

"the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there is that it hasn't tried to contact us." - Calvin and Hobbes I know, Calvin and Hobbes has absolutely no scientific credibility, but in this case, I think it has a point. Based on sublumjack's point that 1 in 10 000 earthlike planets will have intelligent life, there is a very good chance that there is life out there that is more intelligent than humans. With that level of intelligence, they quite likely have already figured out that a)we exist and b) if they tried to contact us, we would probably just wage interplanetary war against us.

isn't it already easy enough for stalkers to spy on you?