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NASA and other space agencies are planning for a manned mission to Mars. As the conditions on Earth are continuously deteriorating, we have to think of some other location in outer space which can be colonized by Humans.
Whenever it comes to human...
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Potential Resources. Unlike the Moon which is abundant in resources (O2 from rocks, potential use of He3 for fusion fuel, etc.) Mars lacks the significant amount of resources to justify a long term stay there.
A mission to Mars, although fun for robots would be very costly for human personal as it would be no real financial incentive for establishing a home there. (and we could always establish colonies elsewhere)
Despite the fact that most of the other problems could be overcome (that you mentioned above) the gravity factor remains the hardest to solve.
Astroprof has an excellent post about this, which may put Mars out of reach until a faster ship can be built.
http://astroprofspage.com/archives/804
All in all another great article Jolly! You should demand a raise from Instablogs, or at least a higher blog commission. ;-)