Let's see you Martians. Weekend engagement.Week 210.

Greetings to all the friends of this community especially to those who have joined the weekend engagement through the topics proposed by @galenkp in this week 210.

Within the topics -very curious- there are some of them that caught my attention, but the last one sounded like a lightning snap in my mind when it made me remember a chain of dreams (not bizarre) that marked my first youthful ambitions.

• Would you leave Earth to colonise Mars with no chance of ever returning? If so, explain why with examples.

And I'll explain why

At the complex age of 13 my father gave me a book that immediately caught all the incredible disorder of my thoughts, at that time when you begin the transition to adolescence you lose a little social harmony and my father, aware of this, gave me nothing more and nothing less than a scientific book with a very suggestive title:

• Let me see you Martians.

You might wonder if it was a book really suitable for a child, because in fact it had nothing similar to the adventurous literature I was used to from Julio Verne or Emilio Salgari, it was simply full of real and scientific data about the planet Mars.

At that time my country received a lot of Russian literature, and they're pretty good at that sort of thing, aren't they?

So, as I got enough information (most of it), the desire to get there was something extremely powerful.
First of all, the motivations (huge) were extremely scientific: who in their right mind would make the decision to leave their family, their country, their planet to go to the unknown?

He would have to be moved by a strong feeling for knowledge to want at all costs to dedicate his life to the rediscovery of a totally inhospitable and arid place.
First of all my motives for going to Mars were purely curious, the desire to know about its atmosphere (very rare), if there was water (frozen), if it really had an organised geography like ours arranged in seas and continents (as the maps said), the composition of its soils (different minerals?), and of course if there would be life.

It could help to discover so many things (so I was told), geochemically, molecularly, biologically, it could even contribute to the continuity of species, if Mars could be made accessible to humans.

How many new substances could we discover on Mars that could positively influence humans, health, technology and new sources of energy?
Undoubtedly the possibilities would be very high, ah, we humans are such dreamers, but in dreams there is hope and in hope there is life itself.

Perhaps the new findings on Mars helped us to better understand and appreciate life on earth, to travel so far to understand that? Yes, man is so prone to stop loving what he has, that he forgets obvious issues for his own survival: the earth is a blue gas planet.

Mars is a very different planet from ours, and I believe there is no possible basis for its conquest beyond scientific exploration and the discovery of new concepts of chemical, physical and temporal laws.

But Mars, the red planet, despite all the discoveries, is still a distant and expensive chimera, and I do not agree with the situation the world is in to spend I don't know how many billions enough to mitigate ONLY hunger and embark on a mission for possible discoveries, that is, it is not the time, it is not a priority.

So if I ask myself the question of going to live on Mars, weighing my former aspirations as a scientist against the real needs of saving this planet, I would definitely choose Earth.

The resilience plus the sacrifice of postponing your life at the cost of prioritising humanity is not a very common goal for most humans, so the desire to be a true scientist must be stronger than the desire to live an ordinary life as the simplest of mortals, but never at the cost of sacrificing humanity.

So it is very likely, almost certain that we will never see a Martian, even if Elon Musk sets his mind to it.
Thanks for reading my blog, and feel free to comment if you're interested in the subject, although I assure you I don't know much about anything 😃

Happy fathers' day to all of you who have the great joy of being fathers and to those who don't, for I am sure that in many ways you have been fathers to strangers and that has great merit.

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