Do you think we should let humans evolve on mars?

Morality aside, I think this is going to be extremely impractical. It took humans millions of years to evolve into the species we are now. And even then we are still having difficulty adapting to the modern world and still retain a lot of the barbaric instincts. Getting humans to evolve on Mars would be a time consuming task with not so much reward.

It is going to happen, whether you like it, or not. It will take millions of years to happen, though, because technology slows things down.
What is going to happen much sooner, however, is the cultural divergence between Earth and Mars. They will develop their own traditions, customs, laws and ethics, owed to their own planetary conditions. Quite swiftly they will come to their own “planetary identity”, and will seek out independence from whatever Terran nation, or Terra as a whole, that lays claim to rulership over the Martians.
That, too, is inevitable.

Sure, let’s go trash out another planet. Great idea.

We’re still evolving

Why does this sound so much like a school essay prompt?

Been a few of them today, @kneesox

How does morality fit in @Mimishu1995? It is presumed that everyone knows what’s up.

@Dutchess_III
The morality of forced eugenics on an interplanetary scale, to ensure that both planetary populations evolve in the same way.

It’s just the opposite @Raggy. The plan is to let both populations evolve differently, but naturally.

It isn’t a question of ‘let things evolve on Mars’. They are going to evolve whether we like it or not. That’s because evolution reacts to environmental changes over millions of years.

So if people on Mars need (for example) a better hear to deal with the increased gravity on Mars, over time hearts will evolve to deal with that. Same with lungs, muscles, and so on. The environment dictates the evolutionary trend.

But this kind of thing takes millenia. Nothing we can affect in our lifetimes.

Now, i do know that we are evolving, and that the martians would be evolving too, but i meant should we let them evolve to the conditions of mars, or should we make habitats on mars with earth like conditions, so over the thousands of generations, they would adapt to earth-like conditions just like humans on earth instead of becoming a seperate branch of humans that evolved into the martian desert

@Dutchess the OP also mentioned the use of technology to force the evolution.

Whatever the case, the goal here is still to create a different species. And that would involve unpleasant things like @ragingloli said.

I agree with everyone that we should just let things happen without any expectation. It’s not going to be fast and it may not be like what we expect, but it’s something that will happen.

Now I don’t think them separating from Terran society is bad, it would just make Mars and Earth neighbouring nations like those we have today (of course there are the differences). And I don’t want to force evolution like making them have bodies that clearly dont suit the environment they’re in making life harder from them, just wondering if we should instead change the environment (not necessarily the whole planet) so that they would be similar to humans on earth even if their culture, laws, and all are different. To get rid of the complications like
“martians cant go to earth because the gravity is too strong”, or
“humans cant go to Mars because prolonged stay might mess something up like spreading diseases from earth, or organ problems due to martian conditions”, or something like that

also i should probably have put this in “science fiction” and not “science”...
and also not in the biology section..

it would just make Mars and Earth neighbouring nations like those we have today (of course there are the differences).

During colonial time America, America was some sort of a “neighboring nation” to Britain. A lot of people in America considered themselves British and had good opinion on Britain. Britain was also easy on them on a lot of things like trading and tax, and mostly just left America alone to do their things provided that they provided them with things they needed. And that helped America develop their own culture. Regardless, America was still really fond of Britain until the Seven Years War happened and it forced Britain to change a lot of policies regarding America like imposing taxes. Americans weren’t happy because the changes directly affected their identity as a nation and relationship with Britain. And that was how the Revolutionary War started.

Just some food for thoughts.

Yeah, I’m just echoing @ragingloli‘s point :P

I’d rather put some effort into making Earth more habitable for human development.

In terms of cost and scope, the benefits would be a lot more deliverable.

Not only that, but aliens might not appreciate finding junked rockets on their turf, shot full of bullet holes. “Sigh, here come the Good Ol’ Earth Boys, and there goes the neighborhood.”

@Nomore_lockout – HA! True thing.

When it comes to “colonizing” any place, we don’t always send our best.