How Long Until We Get a Decent Living Situation on Mars?
When I was growing up, the United States of America had done something incredible.
We had landed a man on the moon.
Everyone thought that soon we would put a lunar space colony up there.
From there it was considered to be just a hop skip and a jump away from putting a man on Mars, and a colony there as well.
When I was in high school, everyone thought it was a foregone conclusion that within 10 years, and not more than 20 that you and I could possibly go and live on Mars.
Turns out all the futurists were wrong, and that the American people lost their will along with the funding.
Let's go ahead and talk about this shall we? So where are we today? Well, we see socialism creeping into our society and civilization, and money for important exploration matters of this type going to the back burner.
Worse, someone else is about ready to turn off the stove completely.
This is where free enterprise, billionaire philanthropists, and innovation are needed.
Luckily a few folks have stepped up to the plate, and they insist that the future of privatized spaceflight is now here.
You may have heard that there is a waiting list with over 100,000 people who are willing to take a one-way mission, to Mars.
They realize that there will not be any way to get back, and they will have to make due on that planet the best they can, or perish in the process.
Nevertheless, there are those who are willing to take that risk for the betterment and future of mankind, to make a statement, and to make their life count for something.
To them I applaud.
Still, if these folks do go, will any others follow? Perhaps they will get there, and in four or five years more, reinforcements will come, new technologies will be discovered, and everything will work out fine in the new Mars colony.
If all that sounds good so far, there are a couple of books I think you should read; "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction" by Annalee Newitz, Double Day Publishers, New York, NY, 2013, 320 pages, ISBN: 978-038553-591-5.
Also read; "How to Live On Mars," by Robert Zubrin After you read all those you will realize how difficult such an undertaking really is in this day and age of unknowns.
Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that it's time to stop talking and start doing - and that goes for anything you or I do in life doesn't it? Please consider all this and think on it.
We had landed a man on the moon.
Everyone thought that soon we would put a lunar space colony up there.
From there it was considered to be just a hop skip and a jump away from putting a man on Mars, and a colony there as well.
When I was in high school, everyone thought it was a foregone conclusion that within 10 years, and not more than 20 that you and I could possibly go and live on Mars.
Turns out all the futurists were wrong, and that the American people lost their will along with the funding.
Let's go ahead and talk about this shall we? So where are we today? Well, we see socialism creeping into our society and civilization, and money for important exploration matters of this type going to the back burner.
Worse, someone else is about ready to turn off the stove completely.
This is where free enterprise, billionaire philanthropists, and innovation are needed.
Luckily a few folks have stepped up to the plate, and they insist that the future of privatized spaceflight is now here.
You may have heard that there is a waiting list with over 100,000 people who are willing to take a one-way mission, to Mars.
They realize that there will not be any way to get back, and they will have to make due on that planet the best they can, or perish in the process.
Nevertheless, there are those who are willing to take that risk for the betterment and future of mankind, to make a statement, and to make their life count for something.
To them I applaud.
Still, if these folks do go, will any others follow? Perhaps they will get there, and in four or five years more, reinforcements will come, new technologies will be discovered, and everything will work out fine in the new Mars colony.
If all that sounds good so far, there are a couple of books I think you should read; "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction" by Annalee Newitz, Double Day Publishers, New York, NY, 2013, 320 pages, ISBN: 978-038553-591-5.
Also read; "How to Live On Mars," by Robert Zubrin After you read all those you will realize how difficult such an undertaking really is in this day and age of unknowns.
Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that it's time to stop talking and start doing - and that goes for anything you or I do in life doesn't it? Please consider all this and think on it.
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