When do you think that we will terraform mars?

Question

When do you think that we will terraform mars?

Answer 1

Before the end of the century. I'm quite confident of this. If done properly, it can be done in that time frame, nevermind the naysayers. And once the atmosphere has been restored, it will remain for a very long time, in human terms, if only an instant in geologic terms. It takes time to strip away an atmosphere.

Answer 2

bad idea.  Hopefully never

Answer 3

  That will never happen.

Answer 4

Terraform Mars? Not anywhere in the near future. Mainstream scientists state that it could take a minimum of at least a thousand years (realistically speaking and forgetting the overdose of euphoria, a million years) to terraform a planet. Sci-fi movies and other futuristic folklores portrayed by a media medium bear nothing close to reality.  

Answer 5

We need to find a way to give it a significant atmosphere it can hold on to first.  Mars had an atmosphere in the past, but it's significant lack of mass and gravity wiped most of it out thousands of years ago.  Without an atmosphere, a terraforming process won't last more than a couple of "human" generations, making the project incredibly short-term.

Answer 6

Not anytime soon.... we are no where near the technological bar we need to pass to start colonizing, much less to start to terraform the planet. We have most of the ideas down from the Mars Direct mission, which was dropped when the government stopped funding it. The process itself will take hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years.

We need to thicken the atmosphere to warm the planet.

We need to try to naturally oxygenate the planet through oxygen emissions from plants which will take hundreds of thousands of years.

We need to add water to the the planet... the water there is probably not enough.

It will be a long while before we start the process. If I had to give an estimate, I'd say between 200 and 400 years... and it will be even longer before it is finished.

I think people are rushing into the idea of moving to Mars.

Answer 7

0% chance of it ever happening.

Mars has a flaw - no magnetic field.  Any changes done to the planet are doomed to fail.

it IS possible, that with unlimited resources and superior biotech, the planet could be made BETTER... just not Earth-like.