For centuries, the idea of humanity living on another planet has been a prevalent on the minds of people ranging from astronomers to regular people. Now, the idea finally can become a reality, yet many oppose it. Humanity terraforming Mars needs to happen, for the survival of our species, the opportunities for resource harvesting, and its diplomatic potential. Earth has been struck multiple times by space objects, such as asteroids, triggering mass extinctions. “Every few million years, the Earth tends to be wiped clear of almost all life in a globally catastrophic event (read:asteroid collision). An asteroid the size of Dactyl could wipe us off the face of the Earth.” The author of the “terraforming mars” doc writes, saying …show more content…
The author of the “terraforming mars” doc writes “There is an abundance of rare metals on Mars such as platinum, gold, silver, and others. Shipping from Mars to Earth, as mentioned above, is much easier than the other way around.”. Mining materials from Mars will extend the limited amount of time humankind has to find alternative methods for daily life. Besides the materials residing in martian soil, Mars also is neighboring the asteroid belt, and the asteroids are composed of precious materials. The author of the “terraforming mars” doc writes “Even more promising is the proximity of the asteroid belt to Mars. Dactyl, the moon orbiting the asteroid Ida shown in this picture, is 1.4 kilometers in diameter, yet it contains more iron that the human race has used in its entire existence. These asteroids could be mined near Mars and shipped from the planet for little cost.” This would benefit humanity economically,improving human condition. Terraforming Mars will give humanity access to limited materials, in quantities that are inconceivable, which will improve humanity’s economy and
“How to Poison the Earth” by Linnea Saukko was written as an assignment for a freshman composition class. This essay details a process that humans could take to ensure the definitive destruction of earth. The writer explains that this process might be difficult, due to the fact that the earth has ways to continuously cleanse itself. The first process suggests that large amounts of lethal substances, such as uranium-238 and plutonium, should be produced and then injected into the earth. We would start by building more nuclear plants to help generate more plutonium.
In his article he takes into account that, although NASA has made many discoveries, it is still not worth the amount that we spend to produce those discoveries. Yost believes that we should be more focused on the lives of our own people, than trying to “plant flags on planets”. The money can be put into other matter such as “MIT tuition” and “feeding and clothing the homeless”, which is much more beneficial than NASA’s results. Yost believes that we need to get it out of our head that someday the earth will inevitably explode, instead we should inspire children to believe that “human life on earth is sustainable” (Yost). Although Keith Yost provides a convincing argument through his use of counter-arguments, he relies too much on pathos rather than logos to support his claims, and displays frequent use of logical fallacies, making his argument
The knowledge we have gained in the last 10,000 years has not been fast enough or successful to curve our destruction of the earth. The laws of the earth have been set for billions of years and each civilizations had different ways of success. Success is living within the “circle of life”. If we continue business as usual we will not have success, we are living outside the circle of life. Living outside of the circle of life is destroying the diversity of out planet that ecosystems are so reliant
Saving the earth cannot be done with just preservationist policy, but we need to create an effective plan that benefits both parties.
The point is that enormous rocks might be hurtling toward Earth to end our way of life in a fiery cataclysm. Call them what you like, you blind
During the talk by Dr. David Galbraith, several global questions were raised. The most prominent one that came to my mind during the talk was how we are going to survive on a planet that we cannot leave, yet one that we have depleted our natural resources by 98.5%. Galbraith discusses how we survive on Earth because of the presence of our atmosphere and internal magnetic field; we are unique because we have yet to encounter another planet that has an atmosphere like we do. Because our atmosphere is protecting us from cosmic rays and radiation, and we have yet to find a way to substantially protect ourselves outside of our atmosphere, we are stuck on our current planet. As Galbraith discussed during his talk and mentioned above, we have depleted
According to Let Robots Take to the Stars, paragraph 2, “Space travel is extremely expensive. To get humans to Mars, it would take $1 trillion over a 25-year period.” However, satellite data shows global warming since 1998 is increasing more than twice as fast as scientists had thought; therefore this issue outweighs any concerns one may have pertaining to money. Research about mars and its possible life continues as signs of water indicate a form of recent lively activity.
Annotated Bibliography: How Climate Change Is Affecting Our Planet Controversy statement: Climate change is been debated for over centuries now. People all around the world are taking action and reducing burning fossils to minimize the gasses in the atmosphere. Many people believe that climate change doesn't exists. But there are a lot of controversial topics that proves that climate change is real. In my opinion, climate change is slowly killing us and destroying our planet.
The story, Naming of Names depicts a “New Frontier” type of people whose goal is to stay alive until the war on Earth is over, the short story takes the readers on a trip with Harry and his family and the struggles of trying to restart their lives on Mars. Things don’t turn out the best for the New Frontiersmen when the civilization begins to change, some of these changes include golden eyes, darker skin, thinner and taller bodies, another one of these changes are the people begin speaking in the ancient Martian tongue, one of the last changes these New Frontiersman run into is the change in their diet and clothing. The science fiction, Naming of Names by Ray Bradbury reveals change and how humans learn to adapt to different ways of life. The first piece of evidence to prove the thesis is the humans on Mars are changing a substantial part of their body, this includes their eye and skin color, and they are also becoming a shade or two browner and start becoming very thin and taller.
There have been many questions about the future of human beings as long as we have existed. Today, that question is about space and the future of the Earth. There are many arguments on the future of people on Earth and how we will survive with the decline of the Earth in recent years. Some have suggested settling Mars or other planets, while others say that we should stay on Earth and take better care of it to save it. So what should we do?
I have great confidence that spending all our money and limited resources on developing the technology to be able to survive the harshness of space will be immensely more beneficial, than wasting it on trying to fix Earth. Why spend money on a planet that is constantly being hit with natural disasters, for instance tsunamis and tornadoes, when technology could possibly be developed that will allow a person to transform a hostile planet not suitable for humans, to a nice place that will not have tornadoes and
Can humans really survive and be called the immortal species when oil reserve is expected to last measly for another 53 years only? There are an overwhelming amount of videos on the news and realistic simulations of men going on Mars missions. Conducting a revolutionary journey to Mars were aimed by
What is global warming? Global Warming is the increase of Earth 's normal surface temperature due to impact of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide radiations from lighting fossil fuels or from the removal of trees which lure heat that would otherwise get away from Earth. This is a kind of greenhouse impact. Global warming is the determined and relieved increases in the mean temperature of Earth atmosphere and oceans.
Using the chart displayed to the right, specifically the Pathfinder data, possible minerals to mine were chosen. The mine will be used to extract mainly SiO_2,Al_2 O_3,Fe_2 O_3 and MnO_3. The silicon produced will be used in the production of solar panels along with windows and insulation for the housing. Aluminum will be used for walls and wiring in the housing. Processed iron can be used for pipes, nails, and heating.
The earth, our earth, once used to be a healthy environment, with no pollution or destruction. Not until humans began creating advanced technology and other inventions that started to affect the way we live. As humans we thought these inventions would just make life easier for us and we don’t mean to harm the planet. We are all trying to help the planet but at the same time, destroying it.