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>That said I feel like it would be a hell of a lot easier to live on a hot earth than it would be to live on mars.

Maybe; a rise in temperature means a rise in the prevalence of disease and superstorms. Combine those two and it doesn't look very promising for human civilization on earth.

On the other hand, developing a colonized mars with domed cities that have been acclimated to human climate would be quite easy to live in due to the lack of superstorms and disease. We need the tech (no small feat, though possibly achievable in the next half century I think) and the management to manage that tech. Even so, access to these domed cities would be limited so the point is moot if we're talking about moving the majority of human life over there.

If you want a good piece of hard sci-fi, check out Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. The focus of the utopic novel is colonizing and terraforming Mars and includes a great deal of political ideology and quasi-scientific ideas about how we would make it on Mars.

Awesome post! Love reading these.

For anyone who wants to read realistic science fiction focused on Mars in the same vein (but much deeper) as The Martian check out Kim Stanley Robinson's <em>Red Mars</em>

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> Watch Nat Geo's MARS Monday 11/14 at 9/8c: http://makemarshome.com/ > > Watch Kevin and Jake's videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_MhErD-EA0&amp;index=2&amp;list=PLiyjwVB09t5xDxwO8KpwJA2HTA13xarpf > > Thanks to Nat Geo for sponsoring this video > > Earth and Mars size comparison: http://www.space.com/16871-how-big-is-mars.html > > calculate how much you’d weigh on Mars: http://www.exploratorium.edu/mars/yourweight.php > > Martian ‘sun dial’: > > http://www.universetoday.com/96930/curiositys-sundial-carries-a-message-of-hope/ > > http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/interactives/revealing-mars-before-after-image-comparison-slider/rover-opportunity/ > > Touching Mars images (walnut regolith): http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2005/dust_devils.html > > Pascal Lee: > > http://www.pascallee.net > > https://www.facebook.com/PascalLeeOfficial/photos/a.533740600028877.1073741831.518292958240308/951932401543026/?type=3&amp;theater > > Other flag ideas: > > http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151214-what-would-the-flag-of-mars-look-like > > https://astrosociety.org/edu/publications/tnl/66/flag.html > > Kim Stanley Robinson’s excellent trilogy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QCS914/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1 > > terraforming of Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars > > Outer Space Treaty: http://www.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htm#treaty > > Extraterrestrial Liberty: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-18063-2_3 > > Time on Mars: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars > > http://jtauber.github.io/mars-clock/ > > Mars orbit: http://www.windows2universe.org/mars/mars_orbit.html > > Mars orbit proximity chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars#/media/File:Mars_close_appr.png > > NASA Mars time program: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/ > > Mars Watches: > > http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/spotlight/spirit/a3_20040108.html > > http://web.archive.org/web/20120525133718/http://executivejewelers.com/jewelscart2000/store/jewelscart2000_listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=10 > > Darian calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darian_calendar > > Ask a Mathematician physicist article: http://www.askamathematician.com/2012/09/q-is-it-likely-that-there-are-atoms-in-my-body-that-have-traveled-from-the-other-side-of-the-planet-solar-system-galaxy-or-universe/ > > Apollo quarantine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Quarantine_Facility > > space dust: http://www.universetoday.com/92807/rocks-from-mars/ > > Blood and skin cells changing: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1q16hw/im_32_is_there_a_single_cell_or_even_molecule/ > > Planetary protection: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection > > https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/ > > Mars sample return [PDF]: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/pss/presentations/200803/04-Atlas-PPSonMSR.pdf > > glow worms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnocampa_luminosa > > ANSMET: http://caslabs.case.edu/ansmet/ > > AH84001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001 > > Bill Clinton speech on Mars rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHhZQWAtWyQ > > All music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow