{"id":156855,"date":"2023-02-02T19:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/we-dont-need-to-go-to-mars"},"modified":"2023-02-02T19:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:25:04","slug":"we-dont-need-to-go-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/we-dont-need-to-go-to-mars","title":{"rendered":"We Don\u2019t Need To Go To Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-dont-need-to-go-to-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buckle up, this one is fun: Maciej Cegowski has begun what promises to be a multi-part essay arguing against a crewed mission to Mars. It\u2019s called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/idlewords.com\/2023\/1\/why_not_mars.htm\">Why Not Mars<\/a>,\u201d it\u2019s 8,000 words long, with 66 footnotes, and it <em>sings<\/em>. I\u2019m not even sure I agree, but I enjoy the hell out of it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldnt send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon. Landing on Mars with existing technology would be a destructive, wasteful stunt whose only legacy would be to ruin the greatest natural history experiment in the Solar System. It would no more open a new era of spaceflight than a Phoenician sailor crossing the Atlantic in 500 B.C. would have opened up the New World. And it wouldnt even be that much fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A few choice lines:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckle up, this one is fun: Maciej Cegowski has begun what promises to be a multi-part essay arguing against a crewed mission to Mars. It\u2019s called \u201cWhy Not Mars,\u201d it\u2019s 8,000 words long, with 66 footnotes, and it sings. I\u2019m not even sure I agree, but I enjoy the hell out of it. The goal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}