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ustrax
post May 31 2006, 06:49 PM
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Are you awared of any psychological, philosophical, antropological studies on a future manned mission and possible settlement on Mars?

Basically, and this is a point I would like to be discussed and developed, I believe that the humans envolved in such quest will develop a sense of mission, evolving, as time goes by, in a kind of mystical experience, in spite of all the efforts developed to keep their minds occupied and executing their scientific work.
The fact of being the first ones, the fact of being the Primus in an alien world will originate an ambiguous feeling: the nostalgia of mother Earth, proud, fear, curiosity, exploration, survival...
In spite of being the executors of Humanity's most advanced technological saga, all the primitive, basic instincts will arise and, on that process, trying to understand the magnificence of their adventure, they're role on it, there are questions that will not be immediately answered and then, in order to fill in the gaps, the spirit will search, using external and internal references, one truth, that will, due to the never experienced nature of their condition, the only one.
But this is only my opinion, a pilgrim's one...
Any other?


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post May 31 2006, 07:43 PM
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At this moment, we are spending like in the year 1500 where there were a wave of explorations initiated by Portugueses and Spanishes navegants as the first and later comes others european countries such as England, French, Belgium and German. They had the instinct to explore beyond than the Europe land. Now we have revived our instinct of the explorer soon after we got mastering the power system to launch a man to space.

Hence, the man is only animal who has the deep instinct of discover something new, not comparing any animal word in the Earth which are most concerned in defending their territory and survival.

At the year 1500, the man had conquered the new world in Americas to have a better life with more water, more space, more wealth, more food and more territory to govern. Now at the year 2050 the man would conquer space not only as the past man does but for a better human specie survival.

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