Seeing how Elon Musk wants a city on Mars...

>the billionaire with a groundbreaking rocket company currently planning on creating a reusable rocket the size of the saturn v is entirely dependent on the praise of balding middle aged weaklings on reddit

Earth's society will be destroyed in nuclear war soon after we've send couple of rockets and colonists to Mars.
With their source of supply for important materials gone, the Martians will be forced to improvise like hell to survive. If they manage to pull it off it will take at least half a century to start truly thriving and expanding in their new home.
Meanwhile, the people on Earth have also managed to get their shit partially in order and will start demanding Mars to bend to their authority, by force if necessary, setting the stage for humanity's first space war.

Why do people always assume plastic domes, especially for as long as 100 years?
When we have spaceship threads, we don't assume they have to be flying saucers. Why stick to a such a stupid and outdated sci-fi meme?

If nobody gives a shit about guns as a citizen value then it won't make a resurgence with people who view them strictly as tools. Europe is a good example, there's no chance of a culture coming back anytime soon.

You're underestimating just how hostile the Venereal surface is.
Being able to go outside in an hazmat suit rather than a spacesuit is nothing compared to resource availability, and if you can't pull what you need from the clouds you're not supporting a self-sustaining colony on Venus. An outpost maybe, but not a colony.
Terraforming Venus is so far out that its not a viable consideration unless you want to wait until we're almost a Type 2 civilization before starting any colonization attempts.

Terraforming it only needs to concern itself with the composition of the atmosphere. It's something that can be done very slowly over a long period of time. I'm speaking in a comparative sense. Better than terraforming Mars, which needs more mass for more gravity, more atmosphere, a new functioning core for a new magnetosphere... Incidentally, tossing gas from Venus over to Mars might be one of those long term projects when humanity has got nothing else to do.

As a low-grav rock with a thin atmosphere, Mars might be good as a manufacturing planet once humans start to develop the Solar system. Relatively cheap ground-to-space launches and pretty big things can be built under low grav without the awkward hassles of zero grav. Only problem is keeping machinery cool without an atmosphere to bleed it off to. Maybe 40k had the right idea about Mars.

>Though most missions to the red planet have failed
>Take all the Vatnik attempts out and it's the other way around

>a new functioning core for a new magnetosphere
Nah, that's a reddit meme.
Venus has no magnetosphere either and look at its atmosphere.
Mars lost its air over time because of how light it is.
It has the same surface gravity as Mercury.

If you want to terraform Mars, the easiest way to do it would be to find some icey asteroids from the out solar system and drop em on the Martian polar caps. Two for one deal.
You free up all that frozen CO2 and you bring in more water/volatiles from the asteroid.
That's how Earth got so much water.

Sure, in a few million years, the atmosphere will be diminished from the gravity problem. But that's tomorrow's problem

>This turns into aldnoah zero
Terrain BTFO when

Can't wait for Full Metal Jacket: Mars Edition

"I wanted to be the first kid on my block to have a confirmed kill. On Mars."