The universe is one big scary place. There is so much out
there that we as a human race don’t know exist and we may never know. Putting ourselves
in an area that has never been inhabited by humans before is actually an insane
concept, I feel. Yes, space has been studied for many years but only recently
have we actually been up to see it. In the episodes of The Universe, they
talked about putting a structure on Mars that way humans could live there. It would
by a dome structure because that is a more stable way of putting a building out
because of the winds and conditions on Mars. You wouldn’t be able to go outside
of the dome without a special suit because there is not the correct combination
of air and gasses on Mars for humans to actually have sustained life there. There
has also been ice found under the permeable layer of the surface of the planet.
Having humans live of Mars would mean great advances to the astronomy world. Yet
we are far off from actually being able to live on Mars it is crazy that scientists
actually have an idea on what we as humans could do to survive the conditions
of another planet other than Earth. People would also have to be very careful because
they could very easily die out there. Because Mars doesn’t have an ozone layer
or an atmosphere, if humans were to step outside or a window were to break no
one would survive. This is just one reason why the universe is interesting and
even though I am not very interested in astronomy, it is still amazing to see
the advances we have made since the first man set foot on the moon.
You said that we just recently started going into space. While in the grand scheme of things you can say it was recent, the first man to orbit the Earth in space did it over 50 years ago. Our successful moon landing happened about 45 years ago. With all the technology that has come out in the last 45 years, one would think that it would be enough to make a difference of going to the moon and going to Mars. I have a lot of hope going forward that we will soon be able to make a trip to Mars.
ReplyDeleteI agree that thinking about the universe is somewhat intimidating, the fact that we don't know what exactly is out there and the fact that the universe is such a large and growing thing. I hope that sometime we will be able to explore and discover more.
ReplyDeleteI also think it's interesting that we know what we need to survive on Mars. Its amazing how far technology has come so we are able to know all of our needs and that there are so many differenced between Mars and Earth. I really think its also kind of a scary thing how much we don't know like you said. Good post!
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