I'd love to mine this as I'm very supportive of the cause (humans should be more than a one-planet species ... this argument was made eloquently in a
Babylon 5 episode regarding the highlights of human civilization and why culture like Shakespeare and myriad other things worldwide, contemporary and past shouldn't be consigned to oblivion by one solid asteroid-hit).
However, the Scrypt algorithm doesn't seem conducive to the long-term health of my laptop (or other equipment readily available to the average person not presently invested in an ASIC). I just tried solo-mining Marscoin using ccminer (with a low intensity and low max-temp) and found the temperature nevertheless got too high relative to what have I found mining NIST5 and cryptonight coins. So.. alas... I think a hard-fork that incorporates a new algorithm would be necessary before I'd look at this coin again -- even though I really
*really* really think this is an important cause and would heavily support you folks in the long-run otherwise (See, for instance, Zcoin or Vertcoin which are catering to a wider audience through the use of hashing algorithms that are far easier to mine using hardware available to the non-specialist).
Despite my anguish about being unable to effectively mine your coin, I'd recommend that fellow space-enthusiasts consider last year's
Mars show (produced by National Geographic) [
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/mars/videos/grounded/ ] and the incredible
The Expanse [
http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse ] . Also, within the last few years some other channel in North America (Discovery? National Geo?) had a show regarding the feasibility of terraforming Mars and how it might be possible to accomplish this within a century by purposely producing a greenhouse effect.
Moreover, any futurists, philosophers, etc should check out the Seasteading Institute [ seasteading.org ] for a society working on small-scale independent groups which hopefully will provide a framework of more economic and political options than the limited choices most are stuck with in the current available situations; this, I'd assert, is a stepping-stone towards a better future for humanity in the long-term. The L5 Society (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L5_Society) and topics such as the Bernal sphere [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernal_sphere] also merit wider recognition than they have currently.
