You think! I am a very isolated person, but once you really think about it, I think it would be very hard psychologically. No beautiful plants and animals, no sounds of insect, bird or breeze through the trees. 7 Billion of your relatives, as you look to the sky and see the pale blue dot so far away. The feeling of disconnect would be so strange. If it had nature like Earth, I'd go though.
i was at Ft. Irwin for a short time in the mid-70s. people back in FL asked me how it was there and i replied, "i fully expected to see Fred Flinstone come yaba-daba-doing around the corner at any second". nothing but rocks back in the 70's. Irvine also in the mid-80's, pre-boom. just a seemingly remote and barren harshness.
i saw a headline this week reading china and russia have dreams of jointly putting a lunar base in operation. Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base
i believe this to be the latest. seems interesting that with all the wind blowing there's no dust on anything. maybe there's a pit crew idk
Well it's about time that China rips off more science from somebody else. I don't see it being very fruitful.
it's got to be true lol. this is a selfie taken in 2019, by the Curiosity Rover. it landed in 2009. the rover is dusty but it looks pretty clean for having run around for 10 years on that barren dust bowl of a planet.
if nasa and elon keep their collective shit together, we're going places boys and girls. like literally. in our life times.
one of the latest images from mars on SOL 31 (day 31). looks bleak. kinda like east Irvine, CA back prior to the 80's. like a place one would expect to find Fred Flinstone yabba-dabba-doing.
the rover has dropped the drone helicopter and took a selfie with it. iirc the Ingenuity drone is supposed to fly in may.
pretty kewl! NASA's Perseverance rover makes oxygen on Mars for 1st time | Space "The rover successfully used its MOXIE instrument to generate oxygen from the thin, carbon dioxide-dominated Martian atmosphere for the first time, demonstrating technology that could both help astronauts breathe and help propel the rockets that get them back home to Earth."