Surely there are sights on Mars that will wow people like the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls and other places on earth. It is man’s nature to wonder and explore. Yet whenever people are interviewed who claim that they desire to go to Mars, the Moon or some distant, desolate, lifeless place is so great and compelling that they have little or no regard for their safety or returning to earth, some serious pathology usually exists just below the surface. Thinking of people like Elon Musk. Talented, some real accomplishments but a very strange, unhappy guy.
“...some serious pathology usually exists just below the surface.”
That would be the serious pathology that spread people (any people) across this continent, or into Oceana or the Pacific Islands. It is the “indomitable spirit” of Man, or perhaps just, “there’s too many people around here”.
I am in awe of the young Polonesian bucks who would load a few of their friends, their wives and little pigs into a few dugouts and strike out into the Pacific, following a bird they were sure they saw.
” It is man’s nature to wonder and explore. Yet whenever people are interviewed who claim that they desire to go to Mars, the Moon or some distant, desolate, lifeless place is so great and compelling that they have little or no regard for their safety or returning to earth, some serious pathology usually exists just below the surface.”
However, when life here sucks so bad then venturing out on a one-way trip to a frigid, anaerobic rock only has upside. Think of it as a slow-motion suicide.
How the hell we gonna live on Mars when Antarctica and the Sahara are both largely empty, but ate freakin’ paradises compared to the Red Planet?