A reason for going to Mars

Yep, the golf clubhouse will be pressurized, and our drive swings
will be limited by half-shell surface suits. That's OK, since our
golf carts will be solar powered, and not capable of long drives
either.

;-)

See you at the first Tee!

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, DOUG MAY wrote:
>
> Essentially, any exposed skin on Mars would instantly"freeze-dry"
since water cannot exist as a liquid at such a low pressure, so
anybody venturing out would require a pressure suit. This is one
reason why certain people advocate repeatedly spending trillions of
dollars terraforming Mars in order to increase the atmospheric
pressure to a level where water canexist as a liquid. However, as
has been stated on this list before,Mars used to have a higher
pressure and it lost it when it's weak gravityand lack of a
magnetosphere left it highly vulnerable to the solar winds. Mars
still has weak gravity and no magnetosphere, so any terraformed
atmosphere would once again be blown away. Space suits will simply be
an inconvenienttruth onMars, but that won't keepME from going.
>
> Douglas May
>
> From: Ian Woollard
> To: spacesettlers@...m
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 11:44:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] Re: A reason for going to Mars
>
> 2008/12/13 Kevin Burgess :
> > Fascinating fact: Martian atmospheric pressure at ground mean
along