https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy Going to Mars is totally worth it en-us 2020-06-01 16:46:28 UTC 2026-02-05 11:23:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/True-colour_image_of_Mars_seen_by_OSIRIS.jpg ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605210075 “Humans need to be a multiplanet species.” — Elon Musk]]> 2020-06-01 16:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605210075 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605211339 “People can’t anticipate how much they’ll miss the natural world until they are deprived of it.” (Roach, page 57). Humans have become so comfortable in the world we live in, it's time to get uncomfortable and explore as we did before millions of years ago.

Exploring is part of living and what’s living without a future. It’s believable that if one small planet in this vast universe has life there bound to be others. Even if there aren’t others it's our duty to protect the human species that mother nature created. I would pack for Mars, to go places no one has been before, and to have a chance to fix the mistakes that humans have created here on earth in order to ensure the success of the human race.]]> 2020-06-01 16:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605211339 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605212830 The dinosaurs once roamed this earth until a colossal asteroid wiped them out, the same may happen to humans one day. We are the future of space travel, Roach explains we are what makes Space travel so amazing and mysterious. To defy everything man has learned and to adapt to a whole new environment is something incredible, and that's what makes space travel worth it:

“To me, you are the best thing to happen to rocket science. The human being is the machine that makes the whole endeavor so endlessly intriguing. To take an organism whose every feature has evolved to keep it alive and thriving in a world with oxygen, gravity, and water, to suspend that organism in the wasteland of space for a month or a year, is a preposterous but captivating undertaking.” (Roach page 15)]]> 2020-06-01 16:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605212830 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605213577 2020-06-01 16:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605213577 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605215333 Mars is an opportunity to learn and inspire innovation for future generations, "Space exploration is widely recognized to be one of the most effective ways to inspire students to become interested in STEM education and it is a well-known driver of technology and innovation," -(Fox News, "Six essential reasons why we need to send humans to Mars").]]> 2020-06-01 16:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605215333 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605217721 Billions of years ago Mars was just like Earth, "We already know that early in its history, more than three billion years ago, Mars had a surface environment much like that of Earth at the same time, featuring volcanoes, lakes, hot springs, and perhaps even an ocean in the northern hemisphere," (Phys.org). Mars is so similar to Earth, at least it once was, that scientists believe it can be again.]]> 2020-06-01 16:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605217721 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605218261 2020-06-01 16:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605218261 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605219038 Private companies such as SpaceX (whom just launched a commercial flight successfully) have made some of the world's most powerful rockets. Private companies have the capability of using modern technology and forming budgets based on their own means.  As the New York Times states "SpaceX Lifts NASA Astronauts to Orbit, Launching New Era of Spaceflight," (New York Times). Yes, commercial spaceflight is the future of space travel, more specifically SpaceX, is the future of space travel. ]]> 2020-06-01 16:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605219038 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605222266 From experience you get knowledge. Roach describes how intuition is built on experiences. You can imagine the countless other experiences and opportunities there are waiting for humans on Mars and in space travel. Every new experience is an opportunity to learn and add to intuition:

“Human beings have this amazing tool called intention, where they’ve built up a catalogue of experiences and they can draw on it instancelosuy and spend one minute looking at a scene-whether it’s on Mars or at a crime scene-and know what happened here,” (Roach page 171).]]> 2020-06-01 16:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605222266 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605241776 I thought Packing for Mars was one of the wackiest books I have read.. it's composed of very intellectual ideas and thoughts relating to space travel and Mars. While many of the ideas in the book are written in such abstract ways, Roach's style of writing is something I have never seen before. The entire book is beyond imaginable that its captivating throughout. I would suggest this book for anyone interested in Space.]]> 2020-06-01 17:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605241776 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605242010 Mary Roach began her early work in writing freelance articles for the local newspaper Sunday magazine. Later on, her editors moved onto bigger and brighter things and so did Roach. Mary has written multiple books using her research to guide the composition and thought process of her books.]]> 2020-06-01 17:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605242010 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605255236 2020-06-01 17:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605255236 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605269783 NASA is more concerned about cost. It cost NASA a lot more to make reusable rockets and is a major investment that could be used elsewhere. When the first Apollo missions took place, NASA wasn't planning on frequently going to space, so reusable rockets weren't a thought. It is also extremely difficult to make rockets reusable, SpaceX has been working for almost 14 years to successfully make reusable rockets, which NASA didn't have the time nor money to focus on.]]> 2020-06-01 17:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605269783 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605270559 In 2015 three consecutive resupply missions failed but luckily enough the ISS is stocked with extra months worths of supplies. An article by vox supports this, "The world's space agencies try to plan for the worst-case scenario — so the space station is typically equipped with several extra months' worth of food and other supplies," ( Vox "A resupply mission to the space station has failed. What will the astronauts do?").]]> 2020-06-01 17:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605270559 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605344573 Most importantly, as we have learned in class, they're are signs of erosion of Mars which tells scientist that there was once water on Mars, hopefully that time will come again. Landforms on Mars such as the Kasei Valles, Shalbatana Valles and Valles Marineris hints to these ideas. Signs of water on Mars may indicate that there was also once life on Mars, if there was, there may still be!]]> 2020-06-01 17:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605344573 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605350838 -Mars has slightly longer days than earth by about 37 minutes.
-Mars rotates the sun much slower than Earth so its years are longer
-Both planets have very similar tilts, therefore seasons are similar]]> 2020-06-01 17:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605350838 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605357860 Becoming a mutiplanet species is the next step in evolution as a human race. Establishing a colony on Mars may be an extremely challenging task but it's our only hope in ensuring a future. Humans are destroying Earth and its effects are seen through Global Warming, Pollution, Politics and anything of the sorts.  Evolution has been taking place since the dawn of time, that why in many ways human are how they are today, but to further the human race we must travel beyond this planet.]]> 2020-06-01 17:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605357860 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605363472 2020-06-01 18:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/605363472 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/607203194 2020-06-02 16:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/607203194 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/607225618 "Establishing a permanent colony of humans on Mars is not an option. It's a necessity. At least, that's what some of the most innovative, intelligent minds of our age — Buzz Aldrin, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Bill Nye, and Neil deGrasse Tyson — are saying." (Business Insider). ]]> 2020-06-02 16:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/607225618 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/607242570 Roach describes how Human beings have never been away from mother earth. Thus an even better reason to explore, the Earth is like a needle in the haystack of the universe. There is so much we can learn from exploring. Roach states,

“In the history of human beings, no one has ever been in a situation when Mother Earth, and all of her associated nurturing and comforting aspects...has been reduced to insignificance in the sky...It seems possible that it will induce some state of internal uncoupling from the Earth.” (Roach page 72). If we can leave Earth to go to the moon, we can also leave to go to Mars.]]> 2020-06-02 16:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/607242570 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/607434293 Roach describes why she picked the topic of space to write about, "What drew me to the topic of space exploration was not the heroics and adventure stories, but the very human and sometimes absurd struggles behind them," (Roach page 18). I find this so interesting, the way Roach approached the subject of space, and made it into a very entertaining book. ]]> 2020-06-02 18:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/607434293 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/607450817 Traveling through space let alone going to Mars was once an idea and now its a possibility.  A century ago space travel was just a dream and now it's happening. Roach's describes why space is so incredible, it's so surreal and real at the same time. Roach states,

"Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculousness. It erases the line between," (Roach page 19).  

That line between symbolizes the space between possibility and reality. Space travel is one of the most incredible discoveries known to man, a thing that was once a mear theory, hypotheses and idea. Scientists are doing the impossible by erasing that line.]]> 2020-06-02 18:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/607450817 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/609690195 The 'grand canyon" of Mars and about the same length of the United States. A website named Space tells us how water was once found on Mars in this very canyon, "The canyon system contains a number of different features that give clues to its formation. Collapse pits created by rushing water eating away at the land, massive floods, and seeping along canyon walls all point to water just at or beneath the surface at some point in the Martian history. Cracks in the crust, cliffs and walls, and landslides also exist along the expanse of Valles Marineris," (Space, Redd).]]> 2020-06-03 19:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/609690195 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/609701139 2020-06-03 19:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/609701139 ls1001416 https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/609701718 There is enough evidence that scenticents believe there was once Water and Life on Mars.  With technology and what we already know about Mars, it's believed that Mars is habitable.

"Mars would be not just a habitable planet, but a second home," (Planetary.org).]]> 2020-06-03 19:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ls1001416/sjyin1yd8hiujjy/wish/609701718