There are so much books and movies that talk about colonizing Mars, most of them are labeled fiction. However imagine a world where we are able to make the fiction today, become non-fiction tomorrow. Colonizing Mars might sound impossible, after all Mars is millions of miles away from us. However, scientists think that humanity actually has a chance to live on Mars. However, it will be really hard and even if we manage to ship millions to Mars, here will be even more problems than just oxygen and food.
First of all, shipping millions to Mars will take a lot of the Earth’s recourses and we can barely send 10 people to space. However, if the world was to get together and build many spaceships or just a couple massive ones, then sending a whole nation to space might be possible. But how much time will that take? Of course a long time, since you will be traveling millions of miles! Being patient would be a problem, but also food and water. How will you feed a whole nation while on a spaceship? Will you bring dirt and water to water plants? But then how about the water? Will you suck the water from nearby asteroids? It is all very complicated and we don’t have nearly enough knowledge on technology to be able to accomplish such feats. But in the future, we will definitely come up with an idea to solve this.
Second, if we get on Mars, then how will we split the territory. If Russia and America was to live separately, then how will we split who lives where? This Colonization will be a global project, so there will definitely be global conflicts. Additionally, Mars is not the same size as Earth so it wouldn’t be easy to take a Earth map and swap it into a Mars map. Even if we sort out all the territory problems, how will we distribute livestock and water? Mars has ice on it, thus we can make seas and lakes, but how will we distribute the water? Will it be like before, America having plenty of clean water while other places might not?
Lastly, a major problem would be travel. The world basically relies on travel to distribute goods. How will all the food be shipped? Since Mars’ gravity is 62% lower than Earth’s gravity then “air”planes and cars would cause mayhem. How will people travel around to get groceries or company’s ship products? This will be very hard to figure out, and again, will require serious upgrades to the technology we have now.
Overall, colonizing Mars right now will be unrealistic, but with enough knowledge and improvements to technology, we will be able to go to Mars and live on it. This idea has been a sci-fi plot for decades, but soon, we will be able to make our dreams become reality.