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Meghan Bartels | 17.08.2016
We dream of putting humans on Mars, mining the moon, and looking for life on one of Jupiter’s moons. But we forget sometimes that there are whole worlds left to explore here on Earth.
And we rarely stop to consider the fact that those worlds may well be easier to live in than exotic locales far beyond our own planet.
We dream of putting humans on Mars, mining the moon, and looking for life on one of Jupiter’s moons. But we forget sometimes that there are whole worlds left to explore here on Earth.
And we rarely stop to consider the fact that those worlds may well be easier to live in than exotic locales far beyond our own planet.
“It was glorious being able to breathe underwater,” Earle said during a public panel earlier this year. Being underwater still requires support, but at least it doesn’t take a rocket to get you there. “The blue part of the planet is accessible to pretty much everyone.”
Conley and Earle both highlight the technical difficulties of being born, living, and dying off our planet.
Earle called Mars “Earth without nature.” Conley points out that we’d need to figure out how to build ecosystems from scratch — strong enough ecosystems that they keep going even when something goes wrong.
But whether or not we ever colonize either space or the ocean, exploring one will help us explore the other.
We know Mars used to have an ocean, one large enough to spawn giant tsunamis we can still see traces of today. And the only permanent underseas lab in the world is used by NASA because they can actually test spacewalk techniques in a fairly realistic environment.
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