Will man ever walk on Mars?

Spend a billion dollars building a stadium, people cheer. Spend a billion on a rocket, people boo.

 

That is pretty much it.
Think of all the money we have pissed away on stadia in just the last two decades.
There's your Mars mission.
Real linear progress on a new frontier.
I shudder to think where we would be if our ancestors exercised the suggestion of the last two pages and just said "Fuck it - let somebody else do it."

 

I think a space vehicle launching from Mars has a higher chance of lift off.

Also, just wondering, can you get an erection on Mars?

 

Try mastering question marks before you worry about getting to Mars.

(I do that a lot, too.)

 

Here's what I would wonder about: Mars takes nearly twice the time as Earth to do a lap around the sun. Because of that, its seasons also are nearly twice as long. I wonder if the human body would age more slowly. Or would life expectancies be in the 30s or 40s? If we ever got there, would this conversation take place: "Well, I'm 70 in earth years but only 38 in Mars years"?

 

So you could then be young Tony!

 

So that means Martian girls are only 3s?

 

Well yeah, but they get a bonus point for being green.

 

A rhetorical question isn't required to end with a question mark.

 

Tthe question part does require a question mark.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/question.htm

 

Not necessarily.
It is not functioning gramatically as a question, insofar that it seeks an answer.
Anyway.
Back to Mars.

 

I can't tell if this is a serious or a silly question, but I'll answer it seriously. I would think the seasons themselves or the period of time in an Earth year have no effect on the aging process. They're simply conversion factors, much like converting gallons to liters or dollars to pounds or Euros. Age -- perhaps not the hard number, per se, but in terms of a measure of the wear and tear on the human body -- would theoretically be the same on Earth, Mars, the Moon or anywhere else. Just like an object's mass is constant.

One's weight, however, would obviously be different because weight is the measure of the gravitational pull on an object -- and Mars' gravitational pull is much less than Earth's. A 170-pound man on Earth would weigh 64 pounds on the Red Planet.

Having said that, I'd absolutely love to be proven wrong scientifically -- best way to find out if I'm right or wrong, of course, is to send a manned mission to Mars.