Harry Coumnas Explains Benefits of Exploring and Colonizing Mars
Explaining the advantages of colonizing Mars, Harry Coumnas, an accomplished astronaut, states that exploring and colonizing Mars brings new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. Sharing the pros, he believes that colonizing Mars is one of the most promising back up plans for humanity. According to him, there is always the risk for catastrophic events like meteorite impacts that could wipe out the human species at one point in time. Thus, having a backup plan instead of just relying on Earth can be considered a good idea in order to assure the survival of human race.
It helps to mitigate the overpopulation problem on Earth and also helps with the search for other life forms. Harry opines that human colonization of the harsh and exotic atmosphere on Mars might accelerate the evolution of species. If you get to Mars and establish a colony of permanent residents, factors like comparatively higher radiation, lower gravity, and a vast change in lifestyle could prompt significant evolutionary changes in human bodies.
Harry Coumnas makes a point that Mars is the best target for colonization in the solar system because it has by far the greatest potential for self-sufficiency. Even with optimistic extrapolation of robotic manufacturing techniques, Mars will not have the division of labor required to make it fully self-sufficient until its population numbers in the millions.
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