Persuasive Essay Mars

What I really want to try to achieve here is to make Mars seem possible, make it seem as though it's something that we can do in our lifetimes -

- and that you can go.

So first of all, why go anywhere, right?

I think there are really two fundamental paths. History is going to bifurcate along two directions:

One path is we stay on Earth forever, and then there will be some eventual extinction event.

The alternative is to become a space-faring civilization and a multi-planet species, which I hope you agree that is the right way to go.

Yes?

So how do we figure out how to take you to Mars and create a self-sustaining city?

A city that it is not merely an outpost, but could become planet in its own right, and thus we could become a truly

It doesn't have any atmosphere, it's not as resource-rich as Mars, it's got a 28-day day — whereas the Mars day is 24-and-a-half hours. And in general Mars is far better suited to ultimately scale up to be a self-sustaining civilization.

Mars has decent sunlight. It's a little cold, but we can warm it up. And it has a very helpful atmosphere which, in the case of Mars, being primarily CO2 with some nitrogen and few other trace elements, means that we can grow plants on Mars just by compressing the atmosphere.

It would be quite fun because you have gravity, which is about 37% that of Earth, so you'd be able to lift heavy things and bound around and have a lot of fun. And the day is remarkably close to that of Earth, and so really there is only one thing to change; currently we have 7 billion people on earth and zero on Mars.

The issue that we have today is that if you imagine a venn diagram with two circles, there's no intersection between sets of people who want to go and can afford to go.

In fact right now, you couldn’t go to Mars for infinite