[Aiken]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
OK, my 0.02.

It's part of human nature to explore and to settle new land, and there will always be people with nothing to tie them to the planet of their birth. Look at the way the Americas were colonised (the second time)- by people disaffected with the society they lived in. The way things are going we'll be getting more and more of those in the years to come, I'm sure.

Really? But what can you say about Antarctida? It's much more human friendly than Mars (plenty of air and water) but it's not colonized. Where are whose famous pioneers you're reffering to?
Another example - ocean bottom: whole new Earth to explore.

I don't belive into the exploring nature of humanity anymore. It's exhausted.