Should we Terraform Mars

Just goes to show how much of a nerd I am but I read the mars articles on ign often. Interesting new developments in the exploration of mars. I personally believe we're going there not to explore it or even achieve the goal of putting men on its surface. I think we want to find new potential elements not found on this planet. The potential profit companies can make from using martian resources is too good to pass up. And maybe it will lead to greater military power who knows...

But the question is Should we terraform Mars to make it habitable like earth. Plans are underway as I speak to use microbes to produce oxygen on mars so that when we get there people can breathe its air.

It's a cost saving measure no doubt. They want to be able to not have to carry the oxygen with them constantly. Ultimately however it will change the natural state of mars as it is today.

Shit, it's a tough question to answer and I'm certainly not super smart enough to provide an adequate solution.

But really sit and think about it. Are we HURTING mars? Recent evidence indicates that Mars was actually much similar to earth billions of years ago. By terraforming it, we're essentially putting it back the way it was more or less.

Why's that a problem?

I mean either we do this, make mars start producing oxygen, then go hang out on it and explore it without bringing air with us, or we don't and leave mars alone and explore it with robots.

It comes down to the human element. We simply want to give ourselves an easier time exploring it since the idea of sending supplies to the people on mars is a far out ridiculous kind of concept to grasp.

Btw ....i like turtles...