What would it be like to have only experienced another planet, yet know about Earth?
background: illustration by Luis Peres for Scratching the Surface
Video clip 13: What we expect life will be like
Giving a little more screen real estate to the illustration in this one.
background: Illustration by Luis Peres for Scratching the Surface
Video clip 12: Parenting from scratch
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.
Video clip 11: In their lifetimes
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Video clip 09: What will their life be like?
background: Official logo for Generation Mars
Video clip 08: Frontier creativity
background: illustration for Scratching the Surface by Luis Peres
Video clip 07: Unpredictable but certain
background: Dawn Colony mission badge
Video clip 06: Mars has what we need
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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Video clip 05: Luck
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
Mars PD
How will we keep law and order on Mars? This article digs into various facets of concern, from the physics of hand-to-hand combat in low gravity to the ethical implications of humans living in an environment controlled all the way down to the air they breath. There’s a lot to digest here, but it’s interesting to think about.
The Atlantic