Mars is a very tough planet to colonize. While the idea of colonizing Mars has gained significant attention, it is essential to consider the reasons why such an endeavor may not be prudent. Mars poses formidable challenges due to its hostile environment, high costs, potential health risks, ...
First of all, a common argument for going to colonize Mars is to find a second home for humanity. But, if you look at it carefully, there is no way that Mars is going to be a good place to shelter from any likely catastrophe, in the next few centuries a...
Alex KuzoianJessica Orwig
what SpaceX is doing and why they’re doing it can take you from a place where thinking the prospect of humans moving to Mars is totally ludicrous to a place where you accept the logic that it’s actually an important thing to do and something that’s possible and even likely to ...
Part 1: The Story of Humans and Space Part 2: Musk’s Mission Part 3: How to Colonize Mars →Phase 1: Figure out how to put things into space →Phase 2: Revolutionize the cost of space travel →Phase 3: Colonize Mars A SpaceX Future ...
Admittedly, the missions where we will live on the Moon (now that we've explored it with theApolloand other missions) or colonize Mars (we already have robotic spacecraft there) are still some years away, but today we DO have people living and working in near-Earth space on theInternation...
Do we want to expand skyward for the sake of exploration, or as an expansion of empire? Even if the rockets carrying mankind toward Mars have peaceful intentions, can we ignore that they were built for bloodshed and by literal slave labor?
No matter what kind of precautions we develop, there will always be a level of risk when it comes to humans traveling in space. Human error is a factor we can never truly contend with, and even the most highly trained experts will occasionally make mistakes. In 2003, the ...
lunar exploration and colonization were economic and political. Bridenstine ran NASA under the Trump administration. It wasn’t the lack of technology or scientific understanding. We wanted to colonize the Moon, and we could’ve done it. It’s just that politicians didn’t want to take such ...
1: We May Need to Colonize Space to Survive Illustration of a NASA Mars Exploration Rover at work on Mars. Opportunity was the second of two Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the Red Planet in 2004 to search for signs of past life.NASA/JPL-Caltech ...