...Mars – Should we settle or just visit? By: Megan Bailey 12J You might think that The Race to Mars is topic for the future, but think again. It is taking place right now. There is some controversy towards this Race to Mars, as some believe that it is a planet that people could live on, whereas others believe that we should only visit it. Both, living on Mars, and visiting Mars have various advantages and disadvantages. The real question is: which one would benefit science, and humanity the most? Stephen Hawking once said, “I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.” Overpopulation is an enormous issue in the world today. We have exceeded our carrying capacity by far, and are now using up all of our resources available. Humans are greedy. We want more than what we need, and thus use up everything we have. The way that mankind is living now, will ensure that our species becomes extinct soon. Living on another planet, like Mars, could ensure the survival and success of the human race, as it is a viable solution to the overpopulation on Earth, as well as the loss of resources. Living on Mars, will benefit science, in that scientists may end up discovering life on...
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...them. With less land and more people in smaller areas we will not be able to produce food and other goods for everyone. People will be stacked on top of one another and pollution levels will sky rocket. Inevitably mother nature will strike us and there will be many casualties. With dirty melty icebergs the world will soon run out of fresh water to drink and many people will die of dehydration. We will have no other options then to either die on earth or colonize space. It would be a fresh start that the human race so desperately needs. Population- We are at a current world population of 7.5 billion people and it is growing rapidly. By 2050 the population of the world will be around 10...
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...Introduction “Earth and Mars have a lot in common. They formed around the same time -- about 4.6 billion years ago -- and, as on Earth, a Martian day lasts about 24 hours (Ross, 2016, p.8). This is one of the many reasons why humans should colonize Mars. Humans should colonize Mars because it is the closest planet to Earth within the habitable zone, also with current technology it is the most feasible planet that is within reach of Earth. Colonizing Mars would help Earth with its problems with resources and space control for humans. Why Mars? The big question to colonizing another planet, is why Mars out of all of the other planets in our solar system? As Thompson (2012) stated, “Mars is more like Earth than any other place in the known universe”...
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...crises we have, bringing us a solution in the face of extinction or possibly a new planet to live if needed. Funding NASA could be the most important thing we do for ourselves, our children and quite possibly the human species. II. The Big Idea 1. What is the big idea? A public program that would educate and help support NASA obtaining a bigger budget. 2. Who and where can they reach out to? List or people and where they could be found that would participate in this program. (Everybody) 3. Why would a program like this be so important? III. Economic Problem Solver 1. How can NASA solve our Economic Problem? A trickledown effect that we could be happy about. 2. NASA receiving a high budget could solve our money issues, education issues and job issues. IV. What has NASA done for us? 1. Commercial Products and New Science. List the day to day items that NASA has brought, as well as some of the bigger products and solutions. 2. Safer roads, refrigerator water filters, LASIK, scratch resistant lenses, the need to miniaturize everything. V. Space Travel 1. Public Space Travel a real possibility. NASA does not have enough funds in order to provide anything like this. Most of the technology for Public Space travel has been brought on by private companies. 2. Private Companies expanded to provide because NASA isn’t. Private companies could soon be our new NASA. 3. NASA has no budget to obtain this reachable goal. It has been estimated that possibly reach Mars in late...
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...Self-Defenses, who needs it? Well we all do, no matter where we live. What are the best ways to protect ourselves? Despite what many people say, a firearm is a great way to protect yourself and others. The government is trying to limit our gun freedom; in doing this they are taking away our own personal protection package. One pull of the finger and you can stop a person or animal dead in their tracks. Most of the time you wouldn’t have to pull the trigger, just the sight of the gun can stop them. In 2005-2010, there have been about 213 justified firearm homicides per year, 2.5 million defensive gun uses with only 0.00852 percent that led to a death (David Frum). That’s close to nothing. If a gun wasn’t involved who knows how many more casualties there would have been. How many more families would be making one less dinner plate at night? When owning a gun, you have to be well educated in how to use it. If you don’t know how to properly use the weapon, it could lead to injury or even death. If someone broke into your house and had a gun, what could you do if you didn’t know how to use it safely? You would be shot or even killed. Good for you, you just wasted money on a gun that could have saved your life if you knew how to use it. It’s like buying a car with manual transmission and never learned how to drive one. It is just wasted money and space. It could even lead to death to you or another person. A gun in trained hands can be a very lethal weapon. Owning...
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...Mars: The New Frontier ITT Technical Institute In 2023 an organization called Mars One plans to have a human settlement established on Mars. According to Mars One (2012), every two years after that they will send a new crew to join the settlement. Further, Mars One states, “The crew will emigrate to Mars. They will spend the rest of their lives living and working on Mars. While sustaining life on Mars isn’t trivial, it is much easier and safer than bringing the crew back to Earth” (para. 2), due to not having the resources needed at this time to bring them back safely. Mars One (2012) “will provide the first and subsequent water, food, and oxygen by mining sources from Mars’ soil and atmosphere” (para. 2). These people volunteering for this mission are making one of the biggest sacrifices possible for advancement in knowledge and science. Mars One (2012) stated, “All components required to complete the mission can currently be built by existing suppliers” (para.3). Mars One estimates the cost to send the first four people to be at six billion US dollars. That cost is for hardware combined, plus the operational expenditures, plus margins. For every next mission Mars One estimates the cost at four billion US dollars. Mars One (2012) “To finance this mission Mars One will create an international media event around the project. They will share their experiences as they build their new homes, conduct experiments, and explore. The mission itself will provide scientific and social...
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...torical Analysis “Can Life Exist on Other Planets” Professor Danny Faulkner is the speaker in his article “Can Life Exist on Other Planets” and it summarizes the evolution of life on Earth and how we would need liquid water the gold standard to live and thrive on another planet. Faulkner’s purpose is to propose the idea of life on other planets by providing information of the evolution on Earth, searching for life on Mars, the need for liquid water, and the planets in our solar system's attributes. He acknowledges an informative tone to provide information of life existing on other planets for the audience. Faulkner begins to explain the broad definition of abiogenesis, the spontaneous appearance of life from a nonliving matter. He implies “if life did arise on Earth by itself, it would be inconceivable that this is the only planet upon which there is life”(Faulkner 7-8). He describes life on Earth as abiogenesis. If Earth were the only place that held life it would be a very “special” place; the definitive response from Faulkner suggests the evolution of life on Earth would support life on other planets. According to Lloyd Bitzer, exigence used for this article is that if life was found on other planets than ours. We would have a portion of people wanting to destroy...
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...By: Garrett Williams, Tyrone Dudley, and Denise Mantro Living on another planet By: Garrett Williams, Tyrone Dudley, and Denise Mantro Living on another planet The Mission As a group we decided to focus on Project B: Living on Another Planet. Since this idea has been researched and extensively theorized by NASA’s finest, we felt that this topic would be interesting since it may be obtainable within our lifetime. What would it take to live on another planet? What would we need to survive, to thrive, and to be comfortable on our new “alien” planet? We chose not to present the question “How do we get there?” since that question brings up an infinite amount of theories that Scientist and Physicist alike are still trying to overcome. Which planet would we want to live on? We chose a moon proven to have liquid water under its surface, Enceladus. With other living options out there like Mars, or Titan (one of Saturn’s larger moons) we chose in our opinion one of the least taxing and more accommodating locations. Where and Why Enceladus? Enceladus is a one of the Saturn’s moons. Enceladus measures about 500 km (310 miles) in diameter. It has an orbit cycle of 33hrs around Saturn .It is the brightest of Saturn’s moons and currently the only known moon in our solar system to have a surface comprised of pure water ice. It also has many active regions that shoot plumes of water ice from its surface high above toward Saturn. This is important to note because this creates...
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...Report 4 – Living on Another Planet Transportation systems: Engineers have many design considerations and restraints when developing transportation systems and vehicles for Mars. The amount of dust on the planet will affect mechanical systems. Vehicles on Mars that have to go long distances will need to be pressurized. Rovers for planetary exploration are in development. Rovers for surface science and geology will also be needed, this design is for a drilling and exploration vehicle. In order to support multiple mission requirements, the system is modular and multi-configurable. The main structural aspects of the design are: 1) an inflatable habitat module. 2) Independently powered and remotely controllable wheel trucks to allow multiple configurations and ease of system assembly. 3) Parabolic space trusses for high structural stability with low overall system mass. In addition to these design aspects, new and existing concepts for control systems, power, radiation protection, and crew safety have been incorporated into the transportation system design. This system is designed around the principle of maximum flexibility while maintaining minimal weight and minimal power requirements. Life support systems are critical to a Martian colony. Colonies will need to be self-sufficient and to use what scientists call a bio-regenerative life support system. A bio regenerative life support system will perform all of the basic functions of a life support system based on natural regenerative...
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...Selfishness Are you aware of the meaning of true love when the money and the power are sitting comfortably in your hands? In the song “When I was your Man” by Bruno Mars, he expresses his regret of putting aside a loyal woman. Serving him as a lesson learned, he found the true meaning of appreciation of a good woman. Bruno Mars expresses the consequences of his decisions. Unfortunately, his choices threw away an opportunity that was standing at his door step. This song conveys situations in which Bruno Mars could have done more than he did. Throughout “When I was your Man,” he is continually stating things he once took for granted. Therefore forcing him to love and live without her. Bruno Mars shares his depressive mental state of regret using symbolism, irony and metaphor. Bruno Mars states, “I am in a situation right now, when you write a depressing song because you are in a dark place; you are bleeding in front of people talking about this personal experience. I have never felt anything like that before and I am going through it now.” He sings from the heart and personal experiences, as an artist you have to be able to connect with the lyrics. Mentioning that singing fairytales and lying in his lyrics was not what he was into doing. In fact, his uses of symbolism help him express his sincere regret. Bruno Mars is able to lyrically connect the abstract idea to his mood. He portrays a mental image to listeners of the loneliness that overwhelms him when he realized she was...
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...obvious. Fast food chains are on every block. This is because unhealthy food is so much cheaper than the healthy food that we should all be eating. Also these new technology coming out every year to make our lives easier and lazier, also high amounts of stress are all factors to weight gain in our country. A study in January 2010 shows that obesity rates have reached a constant level and stayed there for the past five years, but the levels of obesity are still unacceptable. Nearly 34 percent of American adults are obese; this number is more than double the amount of 30 years ago. And the percentage of obese children has nearly tripled in that time, to 17 percent. Are we doing enough to bring these numbers down? My opinion, is no. In the past 40 years, there has been an expansion to more than 160,000 fast-food restaurants in America. These restaurants serve more than 50 million people per day. Restaurants such as McDonald's, Hardees, and Wendy’s, serve pre-cooked, frozen foods, usually thawed out by hot oil. Now, their French fries are fried in vegetable oil, and there are now healthier side options to choose from. But honestly I believe we can do so much more than just changing what kind of oil we cook fries in. Maybe we should get rid of French fries all together, and replace them with a healthier alternative, like sweet potato fries. Or even better, why don’t we get rid of, or extremely decrease the number of, the unhealthier fast-food chains, and increase the number of healthy...
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...something that is what the child is going to do when they are put into the outside world. Children learn from seeing and hearing things that their parents do and say and parents should teach their children to stop making excuses and start taking the blame for their actions. Parents are their children’s role models, “leaders”; therefore that makes them morally and legally responsible for what they do. Families, especially, parents have a direct influence on a child’s life, and play a fundamental role in forming the values of children. “The first social relationship a child encounters is with their family. This is where children have their first experiences of being treated as persons. The care and attention children receive during their early years of life affect the way they grow up and how they handle the different issues that they may come upon. This could help or discourage the way that children establish ties with people outside the family. When a child grows up in a family environment that enables their needs to be met, children usually turn out well socially and psychologically” (Elkins and Handle 1978). Throughout the childhood years, a family provides their children with food, clothing, shelter, education and a safe and clean environment. In a family, children also receive support, feel loved, and valued. When children receive all of the basic needs, growing up becomes easier and they will have a great set of values of their own. “The ability to cope...
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...if I didn’t improve, I would be put on a waitlist for a lung transplant. Thankfully, my condition improved, and it wasn’t necessary. But I was *this* close, and had I not recovered, the only way I would be alive right now is if somebody had donated their lungs. We’ve heard stories like this before, but it is difficult to grasp the reality of how serious situations like this are. That is, until we realize it could actually happen to anybody. Your mom, your dad, your brother, your sister, even you. It almost happened to me. That’s why today, my central concern is organ donation; or more specifically, the lack thereof. The lack of organ donors has become a significant problem, and more people need to be taking action to put an end to it. There are so many people that could potentially be alive today if they had received organs in time. According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, over 121,000 in the U.S. are still waiting (optn.transplant.hrsa.gov). Instead of letting that number increase, we have the power to diminish it. To do this we need to understand the problem. We will do this by looking at what causes people not to donate, the critical implications this has on our society, and finally offer some solutions. While the exact causes for not choosing to become an organ donor may vary for each individual, most of the time this decision is a result of: Misinformation and lack of awareness. According to a survey conducted by Donate Life America in 2011, 55%...
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...There are several companies researching and exploring ideas on how to get to Mars. Space X is one of those companies they were founded in 2002. The Headquarters of Space X is located in Hawthorne, Ca. and they design, manufacture and launch advanced rockets and spacecraft’s. Space X, is short for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, it is one of two private companies that NASA has contracted to transport cargo to the International Space Station. (Robertson, 2013) Space X can launch cargo from approximately 5 tons to 53 tons on their two rocket designs right now, cargo services are available on the Falcon 9 space craft for about $56.5 million dollars to sub orbit. If you need larger payload capabilities Space X also has the Falcon Heavy which is capable of carrying heavier payloads. As of right now 6.4 tons or less will cost $77.1 million dollars or for loads over 6.4 tons will cost approximately $135 million dollars. (SpaceX, 2014) Elon Musk is the CEO and Chief designer of Space X and he also co-founded PayPal services. “The key thing for me is to develop the technology to transport large numbers of people and cargo to Mars. That’s the ultimate awesome thing.” Musk envisages a colony with 80,000 people on the red planet. Musk believes he can get this under way in the next 10 to 20 years with the first manned mission to the Red Planet. The key is developing a reusable rocket to help keep cost down. (Coppinger, 2012) “Tickets to go to the Red Planet will cost about $...
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