And Mars couldn't retain its own water??

On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 21:12:27 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
wrote:
On Dec 8, 6:26?am, Paul Schlyter wrote:
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 01:46:17 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
wrote:

To survive, and to preserve civilization and technology, in the
event
of a dinosaur-killer hitting Earth, a global thermonuclear war,
a
global pandemic...

Wouldn't it be easier to make a permanent self-sustaining human
settlement in some remote corner of Antarctica?

Too easy to reach

John Savard

At least it would be good as a practice before settling for a
self-sustained colony on Mars. If we cannot do this on Antarctica, we
won't be able to do it on Mars either.