An Analysis Of Mary Roach's Packing For Mars

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Throughout the book, Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, 5 excerpts gave me a good sense as to why the details discussed in the book are relevant. The quote “The Alarming Prospect of Life without Gravity’’ is an excerpt I felt developed the story. This book is about a writer talking about the effect a trip to Mars or even colonization for humans will be in the future. To think about this I feel one must ask is how life with gravity is and what effect it will have on me. The simple answer to this is only the future can tell, but the future is now. The writer states that with all the things happening in NASA this trip could be faster than you think. This statement is important because it could also find the problems with a long space trip and …show more content…
Humans cause problems with each other and always make things seem difficult. Packing to Mars is one aspect that is so fascinating we carry out the test experiment and send probes which eventually fail or could be used only once. We do this constantly until the result we get are stable. We use resources, times and a lot of days to plan for one day’s trip. And more importantly, we do anything to reach our ambitions. For one trip they have to be retrained to use the toilet, learn to thrive in an environment with no gravity and learn to crash in a capsule. What is so surprising is why we travel to space. Some say scientific research, others say colonization, but the many reasons is to see if “little green men” (or intelligent life is roaming around other planets.) So man has planned so far but what happens when you find life what do we do now humans. Humans are so interesting when you think that are greatest pitfall is each other. We plan and plan, but cannot plan too far otherwise nothing, simply can be done. “The author says that space does not “just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.” This means that space is awe inspiring yet at the same time there is too much to see but too few of us to see it. This is important because humans are captivating. We want to be seen and heard, but what happens when there is no one else to see that is why “the human machine” needs to go to space. To live, be seen and proved

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