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
Humans have existed for about six million years, evolving, creating, learning and making society what is is today. Nothing in the world would be explainable or creatable, without curiosity. In society, we see high levels of technologies developed from years and years of discovery. We have good discoveries like, highly developed entertainment, transportation, and communications. However we have very many dangerous discoveries, including, climate change, our own political ideas, and weapons.
So as a population expanding and advancing onward through time, we have come to the point where we need to ask ourselves, “To go to Mars, or not to Mars?”
Emilio Hernandez Mr. Belmont 29 October 2016 College Composition 1 Argumentative Paper Colonization of Mars should Start There are over seven billion people living on Earth right now and that number continues to grow every year. The Earth will eventually become overcrowded and resources will begin to deplete and a new areas to live will be sought out. Human always find new places to live and thrive and space may become frontier for new human settlements to thrive. The planet Mars is one of the closest planets that reassembles Earth and is only approximately 33.9 million miles away from Earth. Many benefits can come from space exploration and travel such as new technology and inventions.
Should we be looking at this “next step” in a more altruistic point of view? This essay will explore the aspects of colonizing Mars in this day and age, covering both the for and against, arguments. As well as similar and different elements that Earth and Mars share, to see if colonizing Mars in this day and age would be the “Next Giant Leap for Mankind” that all these professionals have made it out to be Firstly, we will look at the atmosphere, and the climate of both planets, as well as various other scientific data about both, such as weather patterns, and natural phenomena. Mars’s atmosphere is mainly comprised of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, and various other gasses but mostly carbon
Thesis: There are many problems that we, as humans, need to solve before journeying to Mars.
Humans could help Mars and even life on Mars grow. One proposal for a quick way to change Mars’ climate was from Elon Musk, a billionaire known for SpaceX, Tesla Inc., and lots of other companies. Musk proposed to “drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles” (Fredrikson). As many scientists are skeptical, Mars would have to warm up to support human life. Another idea is to have factories on Mars release greenhouse gases that are frozen in dirt and polar ice caps into the atmosphere.
In addition to this, NASA knows that Mars had conditions suitable for life in its past, and with global warming and pollution on the rise, Earth may not remain suitable for life forever. Therefore, Mars might need to replace the Earth as our home one day and for
It is human nature to be inquisitive about the unknown; we naturally explore the unthinkable and chase the unfathomable. It is this paradox of life which relentlessly drives us in this pursuit. Admittedly,
Mars Buzz Aldrin once said, “By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.” The possibilities and questions about life on Mars, the red planet in the solar system, have been around for years. With new research, this possibility is becoming more of a reality everyday. Before understanding the possibilities of living on Mars, it must be understood why humans cannot live on Mars at this point in time.
What will be the biggest challenges? And once we get there, could we even survive? The biggest incentive for putting humans on Mars is to have "an insurance mechanism for our species," says Stephen Petranek, author of How We'll Live on Mars. "We're a nomadic species.
Amanda Mills Mrs. Mercer Honors Freshman Lit 21 February 2017 Going to Mars Although going to Mars is a long trip away, there are many debates on whether humans should follow through with the trip or not. Going to Mars will not help, it would only hurt the world. Robots are fully capable of doing this job instead of humans.
There are many reasons that space exploration should continue. If Earth ever becomes too overpopulated or over polluted, then perhaps people can move to Mars. The world population in 1970 was approximately 4 billion people, and is currently nearly 6 billion people. The world population in 2015 is estimated to be 7 billion people. There is a possibility that there are useful resources on Mars. Scientists have found ice and some other clues, such as craters, volcanoes, and valleys, that have led them to believe that there was once life on Mars, and they believe that sometime in the future, should planet Earth need to be evacuated, humans will be able to live there (Jakosky 142). Many of the rocks on Mars appear to have been formed by gasses, breathable by humans and other creatures. A process called terraforming will allow astronauts to make use of the resources that are on the planet and create an atmosphere that will support life. One method for terraforming is that scientists would convert the gaseous rocks back into gasses, and use gas-eating organisms to eat the gas, which results in the formation of other gasses. If these organisms continue the cycle, then Mars would have a stable atmosphere for humans to live in (Getz 39).
This leads to the next reason people get interested in this topic, the fact that people will not be able to live on Earth forever. Scientists look to Mars as the next great unknown. What these scientists are doing are studies determining which technologies will work, and there are even full-scale tests with sets designed to analyze what astronauts will be able to cooperate for years in confined quarters with the others. With all the technology and studying, people believe sustaining life on Mars is a very good possibility, but we are still many years from it becoming a
There are many reasons to it, such as its accessibility, and the most important; its habitability. Mars is one of the closest planets to Earth, only taking 18 months to reach there with the technology of this day and age. Compared to the time it takes to travel to other planets in our solar system, such as Jupiter, 18 months is a minuscule time period. The other issue is that Mars is the only other habitable planet in our Solar System, other than the planet Earth. According to Elizabeth Howell, the most Habitable Planet discovered is Kepler-186f.
Human settlement on Mars and the effects of our colonisation Kirsteen McCalman Space travel is somewhat of a high possibility now. The Mars One campaign to send humans to Mars has received 200,000 applicants, and 24 people will be chosen to leave Earth in 2025. With all this hype, we must wonder whether or not it is actually worth the risk. What is the Martian environment like? How would we colonise Mars?