Colonizing To Mars Essay

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Colonizing to Mars

Did you ever think we should go to Mars? Well, we should colonize to Mars! My reasons are it’s a good back-up plan, it has many minerals and land, and we might even find something there, maybe even life! Let me explain my reasons.

First of all, it is a good back-up plan. Why? Well, the famed British cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, said that humanity would most likely not survive for the next 1000 years “without escaping our fragile planet¨. Quote found in http://www.space.com/20657-stephen-hawking-humanity-survival-space.html. In a site, http://futurism.com/space-habitats-and-the-oneill-cylinder/, Hawking said that we need to colonize and build habitats on other planets, or the moon, to survive in the next 200 years. In the first site, he said there are risks in living in a single planet. For example, wars, accidents, asteroids, and natural hazards. Also, Mars has some similarities to Earth. For example, in …show more content…

For example, life, chemicals, rocks, and metals. It is said by some people that there is a strong possibility that there is bacterial life(maybe even more!) on Mars! Other people believe that Viking detected it in 1976. While others say it was in a meteorite. Scientists sent rovers to Mars to check it out. Another thing is, Mars is still mostly unexplored. So, there still might actually be life there we haven’t discovered yet! Also, there could even be new kinds of properties. For example, metals and rocks. The reason why I say metals and rocks is because Mars’s surface is made out of oxidized metal dust and rocks. We can’t tell by just looking at the surface so that’s why we could try finding new metals, chemicals, and maybe even life under the surface too! So this is my second reason. Information from http://www.redcolony.com/features.php?name=whycolonizemars, website is the same from the last

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