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You got it perfectly. I want to go for the experience and opportunity. But I also want to build something for the future. No one remembers the people that stay
by geuis 14y ago
You got it perfectly. I want to go for the experience and opportunity. But I also want to build something for the future. No one remembers the people that stay behind and live out their lives, but the names and deeds of the founders of Pensacola, St. Augustine, and Jamestown are taught and remembered.
Another reason to settle other places in the solar system is that we can do so without guilt. In America, we have remember the atrocities commited during the building of the USA. On Mars, the moon, and anywhere else it's all fresh and no one is there.
I don't have my own family yet, so the idea of literally building a new world where my kids and grandkids grow and thrive has a strong attraction too. Maybe they would hate that they were born on Mars with little or no chance of returning to Earth, but I have to hope that they see it as their world and their future.
- freehunter 14y agoWhen I went to sleep after the Curiosity landing, I had a dream that I was on Mars with a group of colonists. I "overheard" someone say "this is the first child born outside of Earth". Imagining someone who is a citizen (by virtue of their parents) of a country they've never seen, on a planet they've never visited... I woke up in wonderment that this is going to happen some day. I hope I'm around to see it.
- geuis 14y agoI hope it's your kid or mine. That's a great, great dream.
- kayoone 14y agoBorn on Mars? Come on, we MIGHT be able to put a man on the Mars in 15 years, colonizing it so that your kids can be born there is far away.