Why We Must Start Living on Mars - Now. - The Cosmic Companion May 6, 2021
Space exploration is the best hope we have to protect Earth, as well as the future of the human race.
Why should we start living on Mars? It’s our best chance to save Earth — and humanity
Exploring other worlds and moving humans onto the Moon and Mars may seem foolish in light of the significant challenges we face as a species. On the surface, it might seem superfluous to bring humans to the Moon and start living on Mars, while hunger, disease, and poverty affect billions of people worldwide.
This feeds a dangerous trend, however — an anti-scientific backlash against space exploration. Some memes traveling the interwebs call for ending the exploration of other worlds, in order to “fix Earth,” or “plant trees.”
These are noble goals, vital to the survival of life (human and otherwise — let’s not forget cats). However, these significant, even existential, challenges (global warming, I’m looking in your direction) must be met with the best, most powerful tool humankind has ever devised to overcome obstacles — science.
Read more: https://thecosmiccompanion.net/why-we-must-start-living-on-mars-now
Check out the amazing lineup of guests coming up on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion!
May 11 (s4/e19): Dr. Jack Hughes, astrophysicist at Rutgers University, discussing new findings about supernovae.
May 18 (s4/e20): NASA’s Scott Lambros, Instrument Systems Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope, tells us about this remarkable observatory.
May 25 (s4/e21): The Interstellar probe – exploring space between the stars with Dr. Elena Provornikova from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
June 1 (s4/e22): ~just added~ Using computer modeling to peer inside the atmosphere of Saturn with Dr. Sabine Stanley of Johns Hopkins University.
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