@Psiu! Puxa!: Your 244 is the coolest car I have ever seen!: Yeah. Oncoming traffic, or a cow. Sitting right in the middle of the road...

where's the duct tape?

I would add that one must truly love the experience. If you don't enjoy a good drive, you are going to fail all of the above because there will be no motivation to become a better/safer driver.

@brandegee:

By far, being smooth in ones actions.

@—Core—: The answer to everything: Fusion!

OK. Everyone seems to be up in arms about Mars not having a magnetic field.

@LeonJoe: And you should check your pessimism... ;o)

@alucard1116: Why "overcome" it?

@gemcosta: The only way people will care for this planet is if they think of it's wellbeing beyond their own life time, the same way of thinking that would be necessary for space exploration.

Would someone develop a four-iphone-button-pusher already.... geesh.

@ripfire: The only decent strategy I've looked into is to transport technology to the Moon, set up an industrial base there, construct the ships, and supply yourself with all the He-3 (FUSION!) you want, then launch much larger ships (a flotilla ideally) from the Moon.

@snownpaint1: Naw. Lets get up there and do some wild science experiments! Like see how life develops on a planet {without} a magnetosphere.

@mrgibblechip: you're right. better get started now!

@Antonio Lovemaker: READ KEPLER! Go find his New Astronomy, or Mysterium Cosmographicum.

@ripfire: yup. set up and base on the Moon, then jump from there to Mars.

And on top of that, look up the "The League of American Wheelmen."

Oh yeah, and another thing...

there is some serious hipster-hate up in here...

Ummm... a weekday evening? (apparently after sunset which is currently ~8:45pm)