Its basic assumption is that while only the present self can be directly experienced, we success- fully engage in the mental construction of other objects, such as people or time periods. The key dimension along which those objects vary is to what extent we experience them as distant from ...
So, most likely, people on Mars will live in special houses created from the Martian earth. Materials from the Earth will not have to be imported, so the cost of construction will not cost a penny. But we will have to send a lot of 3D printers to the planet....
The rocks are very gradually sandblasted and the pitted texture of the surface is rearranged mainly in its centimeter scale details while Earth's temples rise and crumble, cities grow and fall to ruin and entire languages, civilizations and peoples come and go. The Moon's landscape of eternity...