The first human colonists on Mars will feel very lonely.
Imagine living in a desolate environment for a long period of time (perhaps for the rest of your life....)
shareImagine living in a desolate environment for a long period of time (perhaps for the rest of your life....)
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I gotta see that movie!
shareThere was a docudrama on this topic called "Mars" and might be on Netflix. They had the drama side which was a fictional story about people settling on Mars, and the documentary side was present-day interviews with people doing some of the technology stuff that might eventually get us there.
shareI can only imagine they'd be immensely devoted scientists and academics who would see certain sacrifices as acceptable
Until some sort of proper settlement, economy and supply lines could be established there could not be families or facilities that we all think of when we think of a society
I totally agree!
share> I can only imagine they'd be immensely devoted scientists and academics who would see certain sacrifices as acceptable
And there's the problem. We're talking about people who are willing to leave 99.99% of the people they've ever known, probably never to return, which prima facie calls into question their emotional stability and their capacity to form relationships with other humans ... and expecting them to stable, congenial relationships with each other in a new community.
Seems to me that anyone who would volunteer for such a mission would have to be immediately suspected of being a wacko. There's a fine line between immensely devoted and pathologically obsessive.
They'll find out someday, maybe even have better methods for evaluating such things then, but eventually small teams will be first to go to establish conditions and lay plans
shareIt’s a flight of only about seven months so it seems likely that at least some of the ‘colonists‘ would be rotated at first, say three-five year missions then back to Earth.
shareFor sure. They're saying nonsense now that visitors to Mars would have to stay there forever, but gimmee a break, we'll solve that problem quick once we start actually going there.
shareIsn't there a huge problem with radiation or something? I thought one of the problems is that people would get radiation poisoning and die within a couple months.
shareyes - adequate shielding is one of the first main problems to address.
shareI've heard radiation would kill us before we even got there. Seems were stuck on this planet for a reason. No-one wants us of it.
shareYes, but I think that people who are going to live on Mars knows what they are facing with and they accept the possibility/risk that most probably they are going to die there.
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