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It takes a certain amount of philosophical thinking to willingly leave Earth forever.
Those who are wondering why on (or off) Earth anyone would opt to do that might want to glance in the mirror. One way or another, we are all destined to shed this earthly existence.
Michael Walsh of Yahoo
News recently reported on the 100 would-be Martians who made the final Mars One cut. Walsh explained
that Mars One is a Dutch nonprofit that “plans to send a small group of humans to the red planet to establish permanent human life there.”
These top-100 applicants (out of an original 202,586) were asked why they “would want to abandon everything they know to live (and die) on the fourth planet from the sun.”
Middle-aged Kay Radzik Warren pointed out that “she would just die here on Earth” anyway. She compared missing Earth to missing “a lot of the things I would never go back to from my past.” Nevertheless, she did admit that “it’s not an easy decision…”
Fifty-year-old Peter Felgentreff agreed, “Everybody misses everything at some level,” yet emphasized the importance of moving forward no matter what. He compared blasting off to Mars to a move he had once made from Connecticut to California, and then concluded: Home is where you hang your hat, or in this case your helmet.
Resources
http://news.yahoo.com/mission-to-mars--why-aspiring-colonists-want-to-leave-earth-behind-forever-185906744.html
Copyright February 19, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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