The Pros And Cons Of Mars One

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Unbelievable! In the year of 2022, humans will be living on the red planet, Mars. Mars One is a program whose goal is to set up a permanent human colony on Mars. Although, this is an exciting idea, it is not practical and is likely to fail; for instance, Mars One doesn’t have the right technology, not enough money, and their plan is too generalized and nonspecific. Mars One doesn’t have the right technology to make their plan work. For example, Mars One wants to send a pressurized rover to Mars, with the humans that will soon be colonizing there. However, Mars One doesn’t have big enough rockets, to send that rover to Mars. To build bigger rockets, Mars One will need a lot more technology. Although, Mars One may find the technology needed to build a bigger rocket, they will need more; to build another one for the people sent to Mars after the first group. This also proves that Mars One will need a better landing method because they want to land a huge rover onto the red planet, but they have not yet achieved that with one of the (huge) size they have in mind. Not only does Mars One need more technology to build bigger rockets and get a better landing method, it takes a lot of money; and Mars One already doesn’t have enough money. Mars One is not doing too well in this situation. …show more content…
Unfortunately, Mars One’s plan is to keep their budget down, by making the trip to Mars one way. Personally, I think that this is an awful idea. Humans will never have the same life ever again. They will never get to see their families, homes, nature ever again. Furthermore, these humans will never get to eat the wonderful foods we have here on Earth for a long time, like pizza. These humans will not be able to cook foods until a greenhouse is made. In the meantime, while humans are colonizing on Mars, they will also be eating packaged astronaut

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