Mars to Stay will take a special kind of person. Instead of the traditional pilot/scientist/engineer, Martian homesteaders will be selected more for their personalities—flexible, inventive and determined in the face of unpredictability. In short, survivors. The Mars Artists Community has adopted Mars to Stay as their primary policy initiative. During a 2009 public hearing of the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee at which Dr. Robert Zubrin presented a summary of the arguments in his book "The Case for Mars", dozens of placards reading "Mars Direct Cowards Return to the Moon" were placed throughout the Carnegie Institute. The passionate uproar among space exploration
Terraforming of Mars have risen high enough for seas and rivers to form. The 1993 space trading and combat game "", as well as its sequels "" (1995) and "Elite Dangerous" (2014), feature a terraformed Mars. The 1997 PC Real-time strategy game "Dark Colony" is based on a human-terraformed Mars, featuring a war between the colonizing humans and invading aliens of various life forms, with much use of biological warfare. The aliens try to colonize the terraformed planet for its resources. The 2009 video game "" is set on a partially terraformed Mars, in which human beings are able to walk and breathe