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The Mars Of The Martian

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Mars Colony Essay For many years, people have envisaged a colony on Mars. Though the task may be daunting to some, the ideas and resources needed to sustain a colony on Mars is very important. The similarities and differences between the ideas presented will be analyzed so that the ideas that will form the future for Earth can be used. Moreover, these ideas will also be compared and contrasted to those from the movie, The Martian. In the Mars-X colony, the government was a popular sovereignty, in other words the people’s say. The Mars-X colony was established on ground rules that stated that everyone shall be equal no matter how wealthy one may be. This can also be said for the other colonies. In the other colonies, people were also …show more content…

The Hellas Planitia colony chose to bring livestock embryos and seeds. The livestock embryos could be fertilized and the animal would be born. This would be effective because the livestock embryos would weigh less, than the animal itself. Something else that made the Mars-X colony stand by itself was its all organic way. Unlike other colonies, that brought GMO foods or frozen food, the Mars-X colony didn’t do that. The goal was to give fresh food so that the people on Mars will have a healthy diet. Since GMO foods have chemicals, the Mars-X colony didn’t want any unwanted stuff in the body. In the Martian, Mark Watney used his own feces to plant potatoes. This is similar to the Mars-X colony and others did hydroponic farming. Since human feces will have nutrients that weren’t taken into the digestive system, those nutrients will be able to help the plants grow. In hydroponic farming, the nutrients are delivered in a water solvent so that the plants can absorb the vitamins and minerals they need. In conclusion, both ways of obtaining food were similar. In order for all of this to happen to happen you need energy. Though there were many similarities between how the colonies would receive energy and the Martian, but other colonies used extra energy sources. The Hellas Planitia colony said that they would get energy by solar panels and other means. Mostly all of the colonies stated that they would use solar panels, because of the simplicity. Since Mars wasn’t shrouded

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