Announcements to colonize Mars

On December 29, SpaceX published the company's plan to colonize Mars, stating that "StarShip will help enable humanity's return to the moon and ultimately send people to Mars and beyond."

It is not the first time that they have made this type of announcement, in September 2016 they announced a plan to take Humans to Mars with a very economical ticket cost, between 88,900 and 17,800 Euros depending on the luggage the passenger carries and it is something extraordinarily cheap, if we take into account that an astronaut's trip to the international space station cost around $50 million in 2016 with the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

And that the international space station is only about 400 km from Earth and Mars when it is closest to Earth is 54,600,000 km from us and in addition the trip would last between 5 to 6 months, Elon Musk intends with his plan to build a fleet of a thousand ships to transport up to a million humans to Mars and create a self-sustaining civilization far from Earth.

Perhaps Elon Musk's dream is partly influenced by King Bradbury's Martian chronicles stories, in one of them I remember that on colonized Mars a father promises his children that he will take them to see the Martians and the It even leads to a canal and indicates the reflections of the children in the water and tells them now you are The Martians, maybe Elon Musk will want to do that one day with one of his children.

Elon Musk announced in 2016 that this entire epic plan would begin in 2022, but as you can see, at this time in 2024, he has not yet managed to send the StarShip into space, which is the ship that appears in the video that has just been published. Secondly, there is the The question is whether the StarShip is the ship with which Elon Musk really wants to execute his plan because the StarShip is certainly large, it has about 100 cubic meters of volume, but in that space there would have to be 100 or 200 people and everything they would need to survive for the duration. At least 5 months, I see it as difficult, although it could be solved if some vital suspension system is created that allows passengers to make the trip in its entirety or in large part while asleep and thus consuming just enough resources.

In the conquest of space we are going to see several levels, the first thing we will see during this century will be the scientific stations surely on the moon and Mars, these stations would house a few explorers and scientists whose objective would be to investigate the moon or Mars, that place where they were.

At a higher level we would have the mining base, in which, whether on the moon or on Mars or on an asteroid, valuable mining resources are found that make it profitable to build the facility and finance the trips, in these two cases the humans who would be in Those bases would be for a limited time, on Mars that time could be about 26 months, the bases would not be their homes but rather their workplaces and once their mission was completed they would return to their home on Earth with their families but Elon Musk more Bet for a higher degree, a higher level and also more epic than that of the Colony.

A colony on Mars would be populated by people who would consider the colony as their home and would live there with their families and surely would not have planned to return to Earth, in fact, it is very possible that their children would not be able to travel to Earth due to the problem of the difference in gravity, which is an extremely serious matter.

The most likely thing is that on the moon we will see scientific bases, mining and industrial centers, but there will never be colonies, that is, populations with families, although one may be created in an orbital station around the moon as long as it generates its own gravity, an artificial gravity that makes it similar to the gravity we find on Earth.

The reason for this is that the gravity of the moon is about six times less than that of the Earth. If humans were born on the moon, which I don't see as viable, it would be very unnatural and if it happened they would be born with serious health problems, their organism. It would be altered by the conditions with respect to ours, perhaps with the passage of generations they will become taller and with more fragile bones and muscles since both the bones and the muscles will not need to support much weight, but the most serious thing is that these descendants of lunar humans, those Selenites will never be able to travel to earth because if they did, their body weight would multiply by six and each step on earth would be torture, a huge effort, their heart would not be prepared and they would surely suffer heart failure or Some bones would be broken.

A Martian on Earth would have a similar sensation, although not as exaggerated, he would see his weight multiply by 2.6, although with good physical training it is possible that he could walk on Earth, but it would not be a very pleasant experience; There is a lot to investigate, propose, investigate, propose and change, and by saying change, I would propose that the human we know would have to evolve in a certain way to be able to travel and coexist in those worlds.

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