A reason for going to Mars

Kennedy said "because it's there", but he was also repeating Sir
Edmund Hillary's famous reason for climbing mount Everest.

LOL! We cannot even keep people from climbing that one with many
warring countries at it's foothills.

Several hundred climb Everest & K2, just to die, EACH & EVERY YEAR.

Give them Luna again, or Mars, and we will not be able to stop them
there either.

Just think of it: the Solar system's largest volcano cone; 24
kilometers tall, and 500km wide! They will scale that, and crawl over
the Tharsis Ridge like ants at a picnic.

Fascinating fact: Martian atmospheric pressure at ground mean along
its' equator is roughly equivalent to that on the peak of Everest.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Richard"
>
> Because it's there.
>
> I'm curious to know how you plan to stop people from going to Mars.
>
> Do you favor an absolute dictatorship?
>
> Gravity wells may be inconvenient. But so far, we know of nobody
living
> outside of one. I see no reason why we can't, but that does not
mean