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1. No. When two people are present, you have three opinions. I do NOT want to imagine the politics involved there... things are bad enough already. Think "Lord of the Flies", but on a different planet.
2. Until there is an economical benefit from sending people to Mars, not likely to happen in my lifetime.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Are you interested? Why or why not?
No, because even 5000 less people on earth will make this planet a nicer (albeit very slightly nicer) place. 
Besides that, I could never imagine wanting to live in tiny enclosed dwellings, never feel the sun on my face, the wind in my hair, the spring of warm grass on my feet, the gentle wooshing sound of the ocean, the cardinal that visits in the morning outside my window.
Heck, send all the people to Mars, I'll stay here.
Mike Mullikin wrote: How long (if ever) do you think it will take in reality for this scenario to become true?
200-300 years, barring any major wars or environmental disasters.
Send three guys, one of which has to stay in orbit, to the moon was an amazing technical feat. Having several people live on the space station where we have to haul up thousands of pounds of supplies every month is also an amazing technical feat. But we have yet to demonstrate we can have a sustainable group of people in LEO, or the moon, before venturing something like Mars. There's still a huge number of problems to solve, including how to make one's own sh*t taste like bacon.
Heck, we have yet to demonstrate that the population of human beings on the earth is sustainable.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Heck, we have yet to demonstrate that the population of human beings on the earth is sustainable.
 How many more millenniums will it take to convince you?
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: How many more millenniums will it take to convince you?
Well, let's see:
Every person has adequate nutrition. Given that 50% of the children on the planet don't, let's say 100 years.
Every person gets an education. Another 100 years.
Population growth levels off (and not by war, famine, disease, disaster, etc): Probably 500 years
Species / Forest / Ocean destruction stops. Hmmm....let's say 250 years, because nature will probably remove most of us cockroaches by then as most ecosystems completely collapse.
So, at least 5 millenium.
Marc
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All the more reason we need to look for a new planet to destroy occupy. 
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Marc Clifton wrote: never feel the sun on my face, the wind in my hair, the spring of warm grass on my feet, the gentle wooshing sound of the ocean, the cardinal that visits in the morning outside my window.
Queue in some late 60's folk music now. 
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Slacker007 wrote: Queue in some late 60's folk music now
Aye, I forgot to mention a midnight moonlit skinnydip with a beautiful woman. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: midnight moonlit skinnydip with a beautiful woman.
Now queue in some 70's adult film music. 
Ok, I will stop here before my replies get way out of control. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: the cardinal that visits in the morning outside my window.
Hope it's not this Cardinal[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Mike Mullikin wrote: 1. Are you interested? Why or why not?
Not, I don't like flying. Or more precise, not being on this planet. I have been with this planet for as long as I can remember. It is not something you just walk away from.
Mike Mullikin wrote: 2. How long (if ever) do you think it will take in reality for this scenario to
become true?
I don't think we'll make it that far as a species, but do hope some Apes eventually will.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Mars is only 38% the gravity on Earth. If your bathroom scales read 100 Kg on Earth (mine used to ...a long, long time ago in a far off galaxy.. but I digress), it would only read 38 Kg on Mars.
It may be possible to create artificial wings and fly using human muscle power only - I would go in a heartbeat.
Plus, being on the heavy side myself, everything would be more comfortable, walking, sleeping, sitting, flying!!!!! yeah!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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1. Pesonally, i na heartbeat - except I have a wife and child - so I need to think of them too. I couldn't leave The Boy(TM) behind - but I'd need to know much more before I contemplated taking him! Mrs. Maxxx would probably buy me the ticket (that's a joke, dear, in case you read this!)
2. > 100 years
.\\axxx
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float titanic;
It's all better now. 
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double points;
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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string Damocles;
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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double gin;
veni bibi saltavi
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Point taken;
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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throw new Pitch()
catch ( Fly ball )
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class joke : CSS-Puns[^] , oldjoke
{
public joke()
{}
}
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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public bool party;
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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byte me;
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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That's much more funnier than the joke!
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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double Ds;
std::vector<string> pearls;
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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