• Question: Do you that mars will be colonized soon?

    Asked by anon-225916 to joannabarstow on 12 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-226527, anon-226555.
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      Joanna Barstow answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      Not soon, no. Colonizing Mars would be very risky indeed. Uncrewed space probes to other planets only have a relatively low rate of success, less than 50%, and we’d want to have a much higher chance of success if we were going to send people there.

      If you want to get an idea of why it would be very dangerous to try and colonize Mars, I recommend reading or watching The Martian.

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