Will we, Can we, ever become martians?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Why do you presume there would be a heavy load on the domes? They don't have to be Earth-atmospheric pressure. As for the CO2, it's in the rocks.

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I didn't say it would be easy, or quick. But starting with smaller domes in a side valley for farming, and living in the cliffs, for protection from solar storms, etc., is the way I would go. Martian sand would make glass panels for the domes.

Yeah, but inhabitants in those domes can’t exist in isolation from eachother or from earth even for a few decades, much less tens of thousands of years required to speciate.

Without genetic engineering, biological speciation will take genetic isolation for tens to hundreds of thousands of years.   Keeping a viable population on mars going for that long without contact with and material import from earth likely require quite a thorough and complete terraforming of mars.

Speciation doesn't take thousands of years. Divergence can start in a few generations.

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Where you going to get all the terrawatts of power you will need to build all this infrastructure?



Gee.


Slight problem, huh??

Fusion reactors. From the ships that brought us there.