Just because it is nothing like Star Trek does not make it less appealing to me. After all I am quite happy in Tokyo so far.

I would think living in Japan would be closer to Star Trek even when compared to America.

The scenery, red skies, 2 moons, and gravity will lengthen my interest in the place but will eventually lose luster.[/quote]
You do realise that you can't actually see the two moons from Mars. They seem just to faint starts on the night sky from Mars.

Sorry to crush your dreams

The scenery, red skies, 2 moons, and gravity will lengthen my interest in the place but will eventually lose luster.

You do realise that you can't actually see the two moons from Mars. They seem just to faint starts on the night sky from Mars.

Sorry to crush your dreams
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WHAT YOU SAY !!!


L. Spiro

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You do realise that you can't actually see the two moons from Mars. They seem just to faint starts on the night sky from Mars.

Sorry to crush your dreams

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[font=lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif]Szecs, you CAN see the moons. They are a little smaller and dimmer than our Moon appears from Earth [/font][font=lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif](Phobos is 1/3, Deimos is even smaller)[/font][font=lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif], but you can see them. Unless the colonists are going to live on the polar regions of Mars, in which case they won't see them. [/font]

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You do realise that you can't actually see the two moons from Mars. They seem just to faint starts on the night sky from Mars.

Sorry to crush your dreams

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[font=lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif]Szecs, you CAN see the moons. They are a little smaller and dimmer than our Moon appears from Earth [/font][font=lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif](Phobos is 1/3, Deimos is even smaller)[/font][font=lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif], but you can see them. Unless the colonists are going to live on the polar regions of Mars, in which case they won't see them. [/font]
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Hmm. Yup. I remembered wrong. Sorry for the misinformation.

Hmm. Yup. I remembered wrong. Sorry for the misinformation.

You're using the internet wrong. This is where you're supposed to double down, and then throw insults at TheGuardian.

Any colony on Mars is likely to be built under ground anyway due to increased surface radiation, and the vastly increased number of impacts from space (due to a lesser atmosphere and minor magnetic field to protect it)... So really you are unlikely to see the moons from under 20+ feet of rock. That, and polar regions sound like a good place to settle anyway due to probable amounts of water.

But they also are really weird moons. Poked around to refresh my memory, the smaller of the moons looks about 1/3rd as wide as ours, is faint, and travels 'backwards' across the sky, and the larger moon looks around 1/12th that of our moon, and travels very fast. Compared to other objects in the night sky, they look more like enlarged planets or really big stars than they would look like our moon.

I don't think I would like to live on Mars because I prefer chocolate personnaly.

I would love to get away from it all!

Cue "The Greatest adventure" by Glenn Yarbrough...

Sometimes, a song speaks louder than words: