What would it be like to have only experienced another planet, yet know about Earth?
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What would it be like to have only experienced another planet, yet know about Earth?
background: illustration by Luis Peres for Scratching the Surface
background: illustration by Luis Peres (https://icreateworlds.net/) for Scratching the Surface (https://generationmars.space/about/scratching-the-surface/)
This one touches on a parenting philosophy I’ve tried to follow since the birth of my oldest daughter and takes that to a new world.
background: illustration for Scratching the Surface by Luis Peres.
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Not to mention a 24 hour day and enough atmosphere to provide some modest protection from solar radiation and stabilize daytime temps to between -50C and 10C.
It’s not a paradise, but we can work with it.
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We need a backup.
background: NASA/JPL-Caltech animation showing known asteroids from 1999 to the present.
https://images.nasa.gov/details-JPL-20180716-ASTRDSf-0006-All%20Known%20Asteroids%202018-Feature%20version.html