Like Cspace said, the study of Mars could lead to quite a few different advancements in technology.
Mars
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Posted 27 October 2007 - 03:49 PM
All ethical factors aside, we could steal... say... Europa, and crash it into Venus. That'll blow most of the atmosphere away, and will bring a lot of water which is severely lacking on Venus (even in vapor form).
I mentioned earlier something similar with asteroids and Mars. As far as I know, the biggest problem with Mars is it's small size: little gravity and it can't hold an atmosphere.
Asteroids could be used to enlarge Mars through crashes, and they can contain ice which would be an even bigger bonus with water.