A New Martian Life Ahead.
What would it ever resemble, could you imagine it, how would you feel about leaving the mother planet behind, would technology ever be advanced enough to enable to it be a regular trip back, or frighteningly would it be a one-way trip?
‘Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!’
Space X, run by entrepreneur Elon Musk, is developing rockets able to reach Mars and wants the first manned mission to the planet by 2026. Each would take 100 people and Musk wants 1,000 such ships launched in 40 to 100 years. His organization Mars One is developing plans for a permanent human settlement and is training astronauts to take the six to eight-month journey to the red planet in 2031. They would live in capsules and wear specially designed suits to protect them from the planet’s radiation, as reported in the Mirror (Paget, A.) dated 3rd July 2017.
Definitely more than simply sheer ambition I’ll say.
I’ve always had a love of everything to do with space & science-fiction ever since I was a young lad.
My dad had been handed down a really old antique 12-foot-long brass-made telescope from his own great grandparents, so enough said on that (it was definitely very old and weighed an astounding amount) it needed two people just to carry it!
My regrets are that my brother sold it a long time in the past, and I never had any photographs to share. The telescope need two people to carry it, and we had to lash it too a pair of wooden step ladders when using it in our back garden. That was the first time I began eagerly discovering everything there was at that time, to know about our solar system. My mum bought me a couple of books which further inspired my love or space, astronomy, and our solar system.
My mum had bought me two books which further went on to spark my interest in space, our solar system, and astronomy.
These books were full of really interesting & thrilling details about what inhabited the world outside of our planet Earth. They can still be purchased today from Amazon:
History of NASA. America’s Voyage To The Stars, for £6.37,
and,
The Practical Astronomer, for£3.78.
My brother continued to fuel my hobby at the time, by sharing the posts that he received every year from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) press kits.
One of the latest press kits has recently been concerned with Ingenuity, and is intended to demonstrate technologies needed for flying in the Martian atmosphere. If successful, these technologies could enable other advanced robotic flying vehicles that might be part of future robotic and human missions to Mars. This press kit can be found on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) site for yourselves, and it provides stunning insight into this brave new world of MARS.
So that was me sold. Space and anything associated with it inspired my thoughts on the world around me.
Then, in 2015, along came the new Ridley Scott film starring Matt Damon, which received two wins & three nominations at the Golden Globe Awards. Seven nominations & one win at the Satellite Awards. And included a win at the People’s Choice Awards too.
It was a science fiction film about a lone astronaut, Mark Watney, who is left for dead on the hostile surface of Mars and must use his scientific ingenuity to homestead an enclosed habitat where he can survive. Meanwhile, the astronauts he left behind realize the severity of his plight and join forces with an international coalition of scientists to launch a rescue mission in defiance of NASA protocol, as described by IMDb.
It raises an awful lot of pertinent questions as to what would happen, and really whether this would even be a viable move away from Mother Earth?
Yes, I’m not stupid and living in ‘la-la land,’ as I say this but,
The Martian is only a film, but it clearly demonstrates the fragility of humanity as a whole.
So are we ready to move from our planet as we destroy our own, and are we simply risking far more lives by venturing out to develop another human colony out there in the vacuum of space, on another world?
Perhaps in time we will be technologically educated and advanced enough to do this?
Sometime, somewhere, somehow.
But not quite now.
But for now until then, perhaps we would be better at tidying our own home planet, and tackling the already drastically damaged Earth, before venturing further afield?
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