The article “Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death!” by Maggie Koerth-Baker was published in The New York Times Magazine on July 16, 2013. In the article, Maggie Koerth-Baker states that research funded by NASA trying to understand the truth about people who travel in space for a long time and what behavior they have experience in a long amount of time in the space. Koerth-Baker claims that boredom is one of the biggest problem for astronauts today. The astronauts who travel throughout Mars for a million of miles will get bored because of spending more than a half of the year and trying to discover something new. James Danckert a professor at the University of Waterloo trying to understand how our brain works when we are bored.
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boredom is one of the biggest threats to a manned Mars mission, despite the trill inherent in visiting another planet” (p.2).
I choose this quote because it shows the main idea of this article how boredom effect astronauts’ mission to Mars and how researches trying to find the effects of the boredom. In my opinion, if NASA could find people who are interested to discover something on Mars and in everyday find motivation to new discoveries. If they are going to think positively that today they will find or discover something unusual and the whole world would be proud of them. They wouldn’t get bored to wake up every day for eight months and do thing that can lead to discoveries of Mars.
Question: In your opinion, how can boredom affect the new discovery of Mars?
In my opinion, boredom plays a big role in discovery of Mars and can negatively affect the new finding on Mars. For example, if we are bored with things that we have to do, we do them fast and not in a proper way as it suppose to be. We don’t pay a lot of our attentions about making sure we do everything correctly because it is things that we aren’t intersected in, but as I said earlier, if NASA chose from those 6,000 applicants only 8 people that are bonded to new discoveries in Mars they wouldn’t be bored and in every day journey find things that would make them proud and
boredom is one of the biggest threats to a manned Mars mission, despite the trill inherent in visiting another planet” (p.2).
I choose this quote because it shows the main idea of this article how boredom effect astronauts’ mission to Mars and how researches trying to find the effects of the boredom. In my opinion, if NASA could find people who are interested to discover something on Mars and in everyday find motivation to new discoveries. If they are going to think positively that today they will find or discover something unusual and the whole world would be proud of them. They wouldn’t get bored to wake up every day for eight months and do thing that can lead to discoveries of Mars.
Question: In your opinion, how can boredom affect the new discovery of Mars?
In my opinion, boredom plays a big role in discovery of Mars and can negatively affect the new finding on Mars. For example, if we are bored with things that we have to do, we do them fast and not in a proper way as it suppose to be. We don’t pay a lot of our attentions about making sure we do everything correctly because it is things that we aren’t intersected in, but as I said earlier, if NASA chose from those 6,000 applicants only 8 people that are bonded to new discoveries in Mars they wouldn’t be bored and in every day journey find things that would make them proud and