Going To Mars In Meg Thacher's Martian Metropolis

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Global Warming, crime, rising oceans, let's face it: my generation is being left with a broken world. But, we may have an escape option, a fresh new start to humanity, free to learn from our past mistakes: Mars. During my time in this world people will be going to Mars, and there are already tests and simulations happening now. People are spending 365 days in martian-esque environments learning how going to Mars will work. There are specific requirements that you have to meet, but besides that, you have a good shot at going to Mars someday. You need to have good teamworking skills, of course, and it's good to have a tech person on board if anything goes wrong. You shouldn't be too emotional/get upset easily, as you need to think logically. …show more content…

We have to go, and we have to figure out a way to colonize it. Because Earth isn't always going to be here. Martian Metropolis by Meg Thacher is a science fiction book about how it would work if we were to colonize Mars. It touches on the reasons, and ways that it should/would work. In the second paragraph of Martian Metropolis it states: "One is survival of our species. We never know what will happen to threaten the habitat. This could be our life raft,' says Darby Dyar, an astronomy professor at Mount Holyoke College and a member of the Mars Curiosity rover team." This citation is important because, we can't know what will happen to our ecosystem, and if Earth becomes uninhabitable, or worse dies, we're going to need an escape option. And Mars could be that escape. Based on all of this, we can infer that humanity has a fear of being wiped out. We are hurting Earth, and if Earth dies, we die too. We have a constant fear of humanity being wiped out like the dinosaurs, which is why we have developed anti-asteroid technology, and now we are going to Mars. We are a fragile species with a fragile ecosystem, and if the earth goes down, we won't have an escape. We need to send humans so that we can colonize Mars and give ourselves that escape. Taking a risk is always better than just standing back and waiting for the …show more content…

It's in our nature, too. Columbus and "discovering" America, Darwin and the Galápagos Islands. With The Theory of Evolution, Ferdinand Magellan and his world circumnavigation, we are built to find out the unknowns, and make them known to the whole world. Ann Leckie wrote an argument essay called Challenges for Space Exploration. The article talks about problems with space exploration, and in the end still agrees we should go. In paragraph 2 it states: "Probably for the same reason we look up at the moon and the stars and say, 'What’s up there? Could we go there and see? Maybe we could go there. Because it’s something human beings do." This matters because it proves how humans feel a constant need to look at new unexplored places and explore them, make them explore, bring them back to the world. We have no idea what is on Mars, and that's part of the thrill. If we send robots to Mars, we won't have the excitement of discovering a new place or a new thing. Christopher Columbus, Charles Darwin, and Ferdinand Magellan all looked at something that they didn't understand or know yet, like the ocean, evolution, and circumnavigation, and decided to discover it. Not for human survival, not for greed, not for power, but to figure the world out. Because that's what we as a race do. And that is why we as humans need to go to Mars ourselves: to be explorers and figure it

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