Posted 08 November 2015 - 03:27 PM

The more interesting part is not really what they "look like", but what they're made of.

This pile of rock that looks like Afghanistan under muslim rule, is a barren desert cold and inhospitable, and not worth seeing other than pictures.

Of course, in a random order of shapes, you'll dig up something that looks like something, but really, it's nothing.

I wouldn't move there thank you.

However it might have value in mining, provided it contained some kind of oil, or gold, or silver or copper or something worth the trip.

That's the only reason I find this interesting. You should provide us with the composition of these rocks.

If anything, the moon is a lot closer, and offer a stepping point out to space. And we can "return" from the moon rather easily, after a shift.

The moon if anything can provide us with experience and technology to go to Mars, should it prove profitable to go there. It would also

allow us the opportunity to work out the problems, details, and challenges of building a habitat on another planet. On the moon, we can call

up earth and ask to send us supplies not available, something vital, that everyone missed, and have it delivered in the next

shipment. None of that is possible on Mars, because by the time it gets there, everyone would be dead.

Edited by RobertD, 08 November 2015 - 03:30 PM.