5 ways Mars can kill you.

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5 ways Mars can kill you.

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We have Bugs Bunny and country music to fix some of this




Seriously tho, I can see way more than just 5 things

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This is why we should go to Mars.

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Two reasons we need to get off the earth

#1 Spread genetic survival odds (so no ELE like the dinosaurs)
#2 Keep the desire to explore in the forefront of the human species

Keeping the exploration gene from disappearing

Imagine no Marco Polo
Imagine no westward expansion
Imagine no rocket to the moon

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We can't live there long term.

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Certainly not above ground but underground may be possible

In the long view, and the next level of evolution is city / state level engineering to planet level engineering where you get something like terraforming at the planetary level.

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If the human population was forced to live underground on Mars

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What if the time underground was 100 years compared to the time frame of humans on the earth?

The tech and finance part of my brain says plan for the long term survival of the species above all else which is why I have such issue with the modern marketers profiteering on short term use. The pyramids are still standing to day when some of the housing stock built in the USA it targeted for 20 years. It is a bit insane.

In the span of 100 years I can easily see the human race jumping to the next level of species intelligence (planet scale) if we would go back to intelligent shows on the History channel instead of making it all about aliens in the past and future.

Viewed another way

Level A can built a single shelter but can't control the elements
Level B can built a community but control of the elements is viewed as god
Level C can build a city but still view god as controller of the elements
Level D can build a nation but can predict weather based on science
Level E can build in space around planet and understand weather better
Level F can build at the planetary level and has control of the weather
Level G can build at the solar system level and can build the weather

Mars aint the kind of place to raise your kids...

We can't colonize Mars. We can try going underground to escape radiation and we can manufacture our own oxygen but there's nothing we can do about the low gravity.

Since Mars has less mass than Earth, the surface gravity on Mars is less than the surface gravity on Earth. The surface gravity on Mars is only about 38% of the surface gravity on Earth, so if you weigh 200 pounds on Earth, you would weigh only 76 pounds on Mars.

Muscle atrophy would set in quickly and would bar any return to earth in the short term. In the long term, the physiological and psychological changes would be so extreme as to surely be fatal.

We can't know until we go, of course, so go we will. It will be an awesome adventure for humanity but I don't see any worthwhile gains leading to further manned missions into space. We just have to take too much of our environment with us for it to be cost effective.

The reason Mars is important is because it's a tangible goal that can be achieved in the near future to keep the money flowing. No one is going to put money into funding for a goal they stand zero chance of seeing achieved in their lifetime.

If you want a tangible goal, set a goal to get a clear picture of a planet in a neighboring galaxy or solar system.

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you probably wouldn't have the resources to feed yourself

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