Mission To Mars

Buzz Aldrin thinks Mars pioneers should just stay there permanently.

I have to admit I like his idea. The effort and resources that would be expended figuring out how to get people off of the planet and back home could be better spent on ensuring colonists' survival.

However, I think we're a long ways from sending off colonists to the great wild unknown. At least 50 years. Unless someone discovered a way to commercialize space, and there was a resource on Mars that we absolutely needed to have.

If the political climate here gets bad enough, I think a lot of people would want to move to Mars and start their own Martian colony, complete with their own laws and way of life.