Mission to Mars
Our intelligence and imagination are rooted in the biological history which limits our thinking. There are lot of things we don’t understand in our own backyard let alone the cosmos. We have not comprehended the other co-inhabitants of this planet. Life on earth is associated with geological and cosmological consequences in solar system. Earth and moon are a tidally connected system that affects stability to earth’s biological evolution. The human possibilities in Mars colonization is a great challenge to human thinking not only in terms of technological advancement, biological endurance but also inter-planetary economics. Earth’s species cannot exist elsewhere without with the help from home planet. We are not well adapted for life away from earth. They cannot live outside this planet unless they are equipped with high-tech modifications such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)-human species (semi-organic beings, neuralink, brain-machine interface, etc. ) that combines machine intelligence and human nature.
In this book the author provides an explication of Mars colonization and the obstacles in these plans including estimates of costs and future of intelligent life. But it is curious as to why a philosophy professor would be interested in humans colonizing other planets. Because, with the progress made in colonization of Mars, we must start discussing the nature of life elsewhere; the challenges to existence would be very different from earth.
This is a short little book of 120 pages with a trove of information about additional reading, this is informative, and the text is engaging. There are numerous books about travelling to Mars and colonizing other planets in literature, and this book certainly adds some value to this growing field.
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