People like to discuss when and how we will create a Mars colony. But should we even do it or it’s the dumbest idea ever? Let’s talk about various arguments for and against colonizing Mars.

Sources:
Mars in six years?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/27/elon-musk-spacex-mars-colony
Mars One
https://www.engadget.com/2019-02-11-mars-one-is-dead.html
Sagan’s Essay
https://daily.jstor.org/should-we-go-to-mars-carl-sagan-had-thoughts/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/43311109.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A5314fd6cd61478c000f8a70554f517c2
Apollo costs
https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo
Nasa budget
https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/nasas-fy-2021-budget#:~:text=NASA's%20budget%20for%20fiscal%20year,over%20the%20previous%20year's%20amount.
Musks note
https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/elon-musk-asks-spacex-employees-to-work-over-the-weekend-as-company-faces-risk-of-bankruptcy/articleshow/88026922.cms
Metals on Mars
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/rare-metals-on-mars-and-earth-implicate-colossal-impacts/
https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/mmc/introduction.cfm
https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/chemical-composition-of-meteorites/
Mars Launch window
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/07/08/mars-alert-why-three-spacecraft-must-leave-for-the-red-planet-within-days-or-miss-their-chance/?sh=928753d5f936
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/cruise/
How long
https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/venus/q2811.html
Mining on Mars
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/drill-baby-drill-what-will-we-look-for-when-were-mining-on-mars/
Antarctica
https://worldpopulationreview.com/continents/antarctica-population
Population Growth
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Area of Mars
https://mars.nasa.gov/print/?print=detailedfacts
A million people on Mars
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-million-people-mars-2050
Economics
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-90303-3_12
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/08/tech/spacex-mars-profit-scn/index.html
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=studentresearch
Reasons
https://stargazersclubwa.com.au/why-go-to-mars-the-pros-and-cons/
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-19666057
For
https://www.businessinsider.com/5-undeniable-reasons-why-humans-should-go-to-mars-2015-4
https://space.nss.org/the-case-for-colonizing-mars-by-robert-zubrin/
https://astronomy.com/news/2021/10/colonizing-mars-could-speed-up-human-evolution
Against
https://theconversation.com/sorry-elon-musk-but-its-now-clear-that-colonising-mars-is-unlikely-and-a-bad-idea-100964
https://futurism.com/author-martian-colonizing-mars-bad-idea
https://www.toptenz.net/10-reasons-colonizing-mars-is-a-bad-idea.php
https://futurism.com/humans-shouldnt-colonize-mars-experts
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/aug/28/the-case-against-mars-colonisation
Robots vs. Humans
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/robots-vs-humans-who-should-explore/
https://www.marssociety.ca/human-vs-robotic-exploration/
https://www.space.com/41551-finding-mars-life-robots-versus-humans.html