The Martian Pros And Cons

The book is fiction. Even though this could be real, it's not because it came from the author's imagination.

The Martian is arguably one of my favorite books because of the fantastic tone and character development. The Martian follows Mark Watney, a scientist who majored in botany and mechanical science. He get stranded on mars after a dust storm knocks out communications with NASA and the rest of his crew leaves when they believe he is dead from shrapnel in the storm.

The beginning of this book starts with Mark Watney a mechanical engineer and botanist describing his current situation, how mars missions work and how he managed to get into his predicament of being stranded on mars alone. For some of the basics, he is on Aries 3 the third mission that has sent humans to mars. All of the use a really big ship to get there and back and by the time they get to mars 13 pre supply missions will have sent everything they will need onto the Martian ground.

In the movie Martian directed by Ridley Scott is a story about a man named Mark Watney who was abandoned to live on his own in Mars after a failed mission (IMDB). Living on his own, Watney had contruct a way to keep himself alive on the planet until he gets saved. Upon living on Mars, he faced many challenges as he kept himself alive. A few of his challenges included getting hit by NASA equipment during a storm on mars, having limited food, having no water sources to make crops, the base malfunctioning, and being able to reach is teammates when he is finally being saved. Mark Watney was hit by NASA equipment when an unexpected storm hit their mission’s scene on Mars.

In my opinion this book is very realistic because it provides us with everyday challenges that we face in our own lives. Not only does it provide us with everyday challenges that we face,but the

“The Martian” is a sci-fi novel which recounts the story of Mark Watney through his log entries. Watney is an astronaut who was caught in an accident on Mars and was left behind by his friends who thought he was dead. Watney has to overcome many obstacles by himself and become the first person to live in Mars.

“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong. The words that came out of his mouth left an impression on all mankind, and now it’s like the government doesn’t want this to happen again. They cut the budget for space exploration down to a bare minimum. The organization is scraping by with the money they have left and with the little sum they are given. NASA has made advancements in education and technology over many years, and should be rewarded with a higher budget for the next fiscal period.

Watney embodies this theme as he spends the entire book attempting to live through the disaster of being left alone on Mars for years.

According to NASA terraforming is the process of transforming a hostile environment into one suitable for human life. To Terraform, the desolate planet would take years, but with technology advancing this gap is becoming closer. There are a number of things that make Mars hostile, first of all, the temperature of Mars can reach as high as 20 Degrees Celsius, but as low as -153 Degrees. Secondly, the atmosphere of Mars is mostly made of Carbon Dioxide at 95.32 %, this is completely different to Earth’s Atmosphere as it mainly consists of Nitrogen at 78% and 21% Oxygen, meaning we would not be able to breathe, and we would suffocate almost instantly. Thirdly, the soil is toxic due to the content of perchlorate. Fourthly, there are dust storms that lurk the planet which can last for weeks, these storms can blur vision and destroy habitats., however, these aren’t a reoccurring thing as these only happened on estimate every two years (1406.9 Days).

Yes, NASA should focus more on unmanned space missions, the benefits of sending a robot, satellite, or probe to outer space are far more beneficial and safer, than to send a human. It's dangerous to send a human into the vast unknown, without first surveying the surroundings of that planet or region of space. This is where satellites, and rovers are extremely valuable because it can not only take pictures, but it can also explore and take in information without the threat of losing a life. Robotic exploration is the path that must be taken to ensure, the safety and wellbeing of manned missions. “Humans are still involved and controlling the missions but without risking lives” (The Future of Space Exploration)

Imagine the set like this, one day in the future when people were able to land on the Mars. You were one of the space mission crew, and in a very immediate evacuation you lost contact with other team members and they left you alone in the Mars. What would you do? Basically that is what happens to Mark Watney, the main character in the movie “The Martian”.

Mars should not be colonized by humans. It is a very bad idea and it is too dangerous. Mars should not be colonized because people could starve from not getting enough food, the rocket can blow up , and people will never be able to see earth again.

Is Mars really worth colonizing? Mars is a very interesting planet to explore, but making a living there is a whole different idea. Colonizing Mars is a bad idea because astronauts will suffer from boredom, scientists will risk the lives of human beings, and humans will leave the nature on Earth behind.

This paper explores the economic, environmental, demographical, and political cons of the human race’ future on another planet. NASA has come to the conclusion that in a few billion years, Earth will cease its existence and the human race will need to find another plant to live on. Although humans will need an alternative habitat to Earth, there are many disadvantages of relocating to the planet Mars. Due to the vast amount of money that is required for going on space missions, countries could potentially end up in debt with other countries. This can also cause an influx in the economy. The change in the environment may not be beneficial to human’s survival. With this, a collection of these influences can really hurt the human population by

With this trip to Mars we would be collecting core samples by drilling into the ground. Which would tell us if there is radiation and chemical oxidation under the top layer. But the main purpose of going to Mars is to find out if there is life on the planet. NASA states that “Progressive discoveries related evidence of past and present water in the geologic record make it possible to take the next step towards finding evidence of life itself.” (NASA). But the negatives of the going to Mars and trying to find all of these different hypothesis, is that if they don’t work out you wasted all that time and money to get something that does not exist up there. But there is that other side where if they would find everything they wanna find the mission