“Get Your Ass to Mars”
I’m a space exploration buff and when it comes to colonizing places outside of the Earth, especially Mars, I’m all ears.
There are many reasons for my enthusiasm, one of the biggest being that humanity as a race and civilization is 100% certainly doomed if we choose to hole up on the Earth. For example, a cataclysmic asteroid hit is a matter of time – maybe not in my lifetime, nor the 10 following lifetimes, but it is inevitable nevertheless. There are a plethora of other threats as well.
Now, to my delight I saw The Human Mission to Mars – Colonizing the Red Planet in the Journal of Cosmology. If you are interested in space exploration, be sure to bookmark and read that!
Then you can muse, for example, whether you would be willing to go for a one-way mission to Mars. A quick answer of “yes” might turn into “no” once you think of what you’ll be leaving behind. And vice versa, when you think of the new, uncharted territories and a new, free life that awaits you. And once you think what new things and new opportunities you’d attain on Mars, consider this: would it not be easier to attain those here, where the climate outside your dwelling is not yet hostile to human life?
As said, sure to raise thoughts. With this link I wish you a pleasant reading on the wee hours of a happy, new 2011!
PS. For a more (science) fictious approach, I can recommend the Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars book trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.
