SHORT STORY: A conversation between parent and child, on Mars, sometime in the future: Parent: See that little blue dot in the night sky? That’s Earth. Child:

SHORT STORY: A conversation between parent and child, on Mars, sometime in the future: Parent: See that little blue dot in the night sky? That’s Earth. Child: What is Earth? Parent: Earth was the planet of our ancestors, before people came to Mars. Child: Who lives on Earth now? Parent: Nobody. It’s a dead planet. The actions of rich, selfish people destroyed it. Child: How did the rich, selfish people destroy Earth? Parent: They burned it up as fuel, getting to Mars.