The prospect of departing Earth has never been more enticing in 2020. Our planet is facing a climate emergency as the world burns; entire countries have been placed on lockdown due to fears of a coronavirus pandemic; nuclear weapons treaties are unraveling, bringing us closer to the threat of nuclear war… and if that’s not enough to make you want to flee, there’s another US election this year.
Please help us. Though the world’s scientists and technical pioneers are working on methods to save mankind from the catastrophe, the only practical option may be to leave this planet and travel to a new one. The world’s millionaires are already devising departure strategies.
Virgin Galactic, founded by Richard Branson, intends to transport visitors into space, while others are more ambitious. Jeff Bezos envisions humans living in enormous space colonies beyond the boundaries of Earth.
SpaceX hopes to launch its first private citizen into space in 2023, and CEO Elon Musk already has enormous ambitions for putting people on Mars and transforming humanity into a true “multiplanet species.” And what about NASA, the pioneer of the space race who first placed us on the moon?
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The agency is racing on into the next phase of space travel, with its Artemis program already well on its way to landing the first woman and man on the moon, before moving on to Mars. But, regardless of whether a government space agency or a commercial firm is the first to reach Mars, what will life be like after we arrive?
How will we grow food, deal with cosmic radiation, and cope with the agonizing loneliness of being so far away from Earth? And, perhaps most crucially, where will we reside on our new home planet?
Marsha, a 3D-printed egg-shaped habitat, has been developed by one business as a possible option for surviving and thriving on Mars. CNET’s new documentary series, Hacking the Apocalypse, delves at the science and technology that may save us from the end of the world.
Source: CNET