Jozap, you seem pretty dense. So let me say why Mars is the better option in terms even a simpleton can understand.
Antartica and Mars. Much in common no? Well minus Mars can get very hot as well. Both have harshness to them. In the case of Antartica however, terraforming and greenhouse gases being added in to make it liveable isn't a good idea, as you know we can't limited the spread of it to just that area. Nevermind the ice melting.
Two a Springboard into space is needed. Launches constantly from Earth is pricey. And our Resources are in most terms nearing the breaking point or rather points needing VERY expensive means to grab. The moon no matter what is done can't support a stable population, unless we make some sort of grav field generator. Something I doubt we will see for a long time. The Moon also it seems only has H3 in massive amounts and so would make for a nice Fuel Depot, if not a location for in the long run an orbital construction facility.
The Question remains where to get, mine, and break down these materials. Mars is the answer. Its own national resources should equal our own, it has Ice, an atmosphere, and a gravity much like our own needing little adaption. Plus it makes a useful first step on terraforming, and only takes at current speeds 6-9 months to reach. The Jupiter Moons would take SEVEN YEARS. YEARS, not months. And require even more effort and have even less gravity.
At the same time you have the Asteriod Field near Mars, which has some rocks that contain more materials than humans have mined in all of its history. By allowing Mars to also handle the break down of the resources, plus a few controlled impacts, you could in theory start the martian mantel back into action jump starting its magnetic field, while at the same time processing the ores in factories on mars allows for the pumping of green house gasses, on a global scale, thus building up the martian atmosphere and making non dome habitation more and more possible with each passing year.
The above is NOT possible with Antartica unless you want to **** over most of the planet for it. Mars also contains the resources to allow for natural agriculture. Antartica does not. In short Mars could easily be made into a 2nd home, an industrial and agircultural world, that can act as a springboard to ventures elsewhere.
In place of being such a negitive ass hat maybe you should try and see that. And before you go in with "well drones and Machines" Earth is a target, and the greenhouse effect is playing hell with us, and I doubt we have a way to stop it, or reverse it. Nevermind its likely some day or another a huge rock will slam into us, we are also being pressed for space. So in place of worrying and pointing out why such and such can't be done, you should spend your time thinking on what CAN be done.
For me space and Mars is that Answer.
As to your Government talk. Yes a government made up of those who chose to go there, and have the same vision, rather than selfish **** heads who waste our few resources just to earn votes while driving the whole of humanity to a new global war. Self determination is far better to have than the so called "democracies" of this world, who's only freedoms are shackless for all, and where a small few try and force there will upon all. Maybe it won't change anything. But unless we try we'll never know.
And don't bother replying I'm sure it will be the same stupid short sighted crap as always.
As a final edit to your position and maybe others, who want to wait till we have the technology to go someplace more of your liking.
What if we never do? What if its not in your life time? Its better to go with what you have, and what you can do. No matter how hard. When you get better things use them, learn as you go. Maybe you'll fail. But if you wait on that cake....when you finally get it, it might be coverd in mold. And the taste bitter. I've seen many people who go "well things arn't bad enough yet to need it"
When it is bad enough, where in the flying hell will the resources come from? Do you think we'll really stop killing each other for some last ditch teamwork? Its the tale of the grass hopper and the Ant. Too many grasshoppers live in this world.
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Its little more than a death trap in disguise targeting the rich.
