What should the first Mars City/Colony be called?

[gay_Aleks]

Lunar colonies first. Mining that sweet, sweet Helium-3

 

[classical_hero]

Atlantis.

 

[Borachio]

What would the name of the first pub in the first Mars City be called?

Mars bars, perhaps?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Found water on Mars.

Still looking for humour, though.

 

[Sonereal]

What would the name of the first pub in the first Mars City be called?

Mars bars, perhaps?

O'Malley's Bar and Grill.

 

[Borachio]

I don't think much of "Found water on Mars, Still looking for Humour" as the name of a pub, tbh.

edit: yeah, definitely an Irish-themed pub. I took that for granted. They've got those already on Gallifrey. Had them for millenia, in fact.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I don't think much of "Found water on Mars, Still looking for Humour" as the name of a pub, tbh.

If you do it early enough it'll be a neat joke to tell to stupid and gullible tourists 50 years later. And then, your inheritors can claim "Well my old daddy on his 89th anniversary he revealed the secret behind the name of our bar, only for 50 Martian credits.."

 

[Phrossack]

There are Irish pubs and McDonald's in every city, so that's for granted. You could try to open a proper restaurant, but it wouldn't work well. There would be no atmosphere.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

There are Irish pubs and McDonald's in every city, so that's for granted. You could try to open a proper restaurant, but it wouldn't work well. There would be no atmosphere.

Clearly you are unfamiliar with the vast array of franchise chain restaurants in the US. None of them have any atmosphere, but they seem to work just fine.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Google Mars Divisional Headquarters

 

[El_Machinae]

Honestly, I think there should never be one

Never is a long time

 

[Fr8monkey]

Found water on Mars.

Still looking for humour, though.

New picture from Curiosity:

Spoiler :

 

[Sonereal]

Thanks Fr8monkey. I didn't like that mouthful of water anyway.

 

[Kyriakos]

What would the name of the first pub in the first Mars City be called?

Mars bars, perhaps?

There's no Mars bar there.

 

[Borachio]

Oh, that's that film, isn't it?

Ranty man and a drummer with fingers but no girl friend. Or something.

 

[Kyriakos]

Yes

I couldn't watch the film after the first 20 min or so, it was too intense. I am happy the actor won the oscar for it.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Never is a long time

Yea you're right, I should have left that word out.
Basically I don't there to be property on Mars.

However, I have heard from a space-engineer type that colonising planets is kind of pointless. Like it's better to just build space stations and mine asteroids.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Yes but putting people on temperate planets will solve overpopulation?

 

[Lohrenswald]

Yes but putting people on temperate planets will solve overpopulation?

Alright so:
No it won't
Mars isn't "temperate"
It's still better to make space stations

I don't understand what you were going for here.

 

[Tahuti]

Too dry. Can't sink.

Fine. We call it Sofia then.