I just remembered another, even bigger problem with going to Mars: getting there alive.

Half of the space probes we've sent out to mars have been destroyed or failed to make it there.  With our current abilities, that means if we sent a ship today, there's a 50-50 chance the crew won't even make it there alive.  That is an extremely risky proposition and that risk would have to come down before we could make the decision to send people there.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

(using Poser Pro 2014 SR3, on 64 bit Win 7, poser units are inches.)