Why would anybody go to Mars? That is to say, what would be a motivation? To make money? To have freedom?
If you were to make money, you'd need a way to spend it. There aren't too many shopping centers on Mars. Also, if you had freedom, what would you do with it? There's nobody there, or at best, just a handful of people. Not much to do but to work and try to stay alive in a very hostile environment.
So why go there? There has to be a reason, or nobody is going to do it.
Perhaps for the thrill of it? Danger may attract some people. But there's no wild beasts to contend with. You're biggest problem is to find enough of the basic necessities of life. There's no air to breathe, no food to eat, no nothing. It is a dead planet.
You'd have to solve the low gravity problem. Also the radiation problem. Once you do all that, the best you'd have is a very limited space to move around in. Wouldn't that get boring pretty quick?
More than likely, there's going to be a lot of robots sent in first. These things don't have human emotions, and don't need to breathe, eat, or anything else. Their problems are not our problems. Only thing is, in order for them to be useful, they have to get smart enough to know that they're slaves. Would there be a robot rebellion? At least for the time being, this seems like a remote possibility.
Robots can be made to move like us, talk like us, and look like us. But they aren't people. You could get bored with them pretty quickly too. Boredom would seem to be a big issue to solve. It wouldn't be too long and you'd have everybody wanting to come back. Mars would be too boring!
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