What If You Were Born on Mars?: Martians may actually exist in the future. But instead of the aliens from sci-fi movies, there will be people from Mars born and raised on Mars. And in this article, you are one of them.
In order to have a stable settlement on the Red Planet, people would have to start having children. Some say that we will need only 98 people, but others say that we will need a minimum of 10,000.
Regardless of the size of the breeding population, it would only take a few generations before we could start to see a big difference between Earthlings and Martians. Mars is the most Earth-like planet in the Solar System. But it is not like Earth at all.
Its gravity, atmosphere, and magnetic field will pose serious challenges to human life. And challenges often go along with development. Children on Earth are born with 120 genetic mutations.
Take those kids to Mars, and they’ll start to have the appropriate mutations to live on Mars. And those mutations will likely pass on to their children. By the time we settle on Mars, we’ll have the ability to modify our own genes, which will allow Mars to develop rapidly.
So if you were born in the third or fourth generation of Martians, you would be very different than you are today. First, it’s gravity. Mars has a gravity of only one-third that of Earth. So your bones will not experience the same force.
Your bones will lose their density and become more brittle. Breaking them will become a common practice. Then there is the atmosphere. On Earth, you are used to a dense atmosphere consisting mostly of nitrogen and oxygen.
But on Mars, you would be experiencing a thin atmosphere consisting mostly of carbon dioxide with only trace amounts of oxygen. You won’t be able to develop a whole new respiratory system. But you can develop other ways to deal with the lack of oxygen.
You may have denser capillaries that are more efficient at moving blood and delivering oxygen to your muscles. But even with these advances, you still have to live underground or in a densely insulated home to escape the harsh environment.
And since life on Mars would be confined to small spaces, people on Mars would not need to be able to see that far. You will be born in near vision. Finally, there is radiation. Earth has a strong magnetic field that protects us from deadly solar radiation.
But Mars has a weak magnetic field that is scattered with the planet. On Earth, our bodies produce melanin. It protects us from the radiation that makes it through the Earth’s magnetic field. But the radiation would be stronger on Mars, and the melanin wouldn’t cut it.
Instead, your skin will produce carotenoids. This pigment will help protect you from skin cancer by slowing or stopping the cell cycle. Carotenoids can also cause melanoma cells to self-destruct.
They are what gives carrots their bright orange color. In other words, your skin will be orange. So with all these changes in your body, will you be able to travel to Earth? Well, Mars would not have the same types of bacteria and viruses that Earth does.
Your immune system will be weaker than that of an Earthling. That is, the earth can be a dangerous place for you. And even if your immune system is strong, Earth’s gravity will be too much for your brittle bones.
If you were born on Mars, you probably have to live there. Humans have looked alike for a very long time. But within a few generations of living on Mars, we may have orange, near-sighted humans who can survive on low oxygen.
And once we’ve successfully settled on Mars, we probably won’t stop there. In the future, humans could have settlements on all kinds of planets, even outside the Solar System.
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Under such harsh conditions, the only logical conclusion from all of this is that colonization couldn’t be the primary goal, because as Chuck mentioned previously, there is no evidence of water, vegetation, animals, fuel, minerals of any kind, the unlucky ones that will be dumped there would depend on the “Earth Planet” for supplies until the end of theirs time.
To choose between hell and Mars, the first would be definitely the more appropriate choice, because over there are at least demons to have a good party time, but on Mars, what the hell would you gonna find? nothing, there is nothing.
It makes more sense that the main objective behind all this is to send all the inmates to Mars as the Queen of Spain did that fateful 1492 towards America.
Then we would be using the term “Colonization” more properly.
If they ever land on Mars it would be a fake Mars landing just like the moon landings, I don’t believe this crap anymore, once u go flat u stay flat peace out….
Ps: even being flat, still love Star Wars tho. They travel to several planets without any issues lol
The earth wont old humanity forever, therefore there must be changes that we must adopt to
We would be in oxygenated buildings or suits so we would not adapt to less oxygen. But maybe to more oxygen or at least a different configurations
A la, “The Expanse”.
We can NOT suddenly mutate/adapt to the Marsian environment in a few generations. That take thousends of years normally in evolution, slowly and with little bits, if not our body cant suvive.
Great
Huge changes in last 50 years
Happens fast due to pollution birth control pull and nutrition
Complete genetic transformation may take longer. I think they are talking about how an Terran body may respond to the Martian conditions. Real adaptations in the past have taken centuries or milliniums through death of many and the reproduction of the few, many many times. We could help it along with gene manipulation or create conditions where Terran physiology is protected with chemicals and mechanics or food and exercise in Terran environments for at least the short term.
We certainly can Survive With the Help of the new advanced Technology that exist now
Curious what they mean by us Earthlings being born with 120 genetic MUTATIONS? How is our normal birth genetic composition possessed of mutations? Seems to me that is just our NORMAL compliment of genetic material.
On another note I would be most happy to contribute to the genetic make up with a multitude of mates.
…”Mr. and Mrs. K were not old. They had the fair, brownish skin of the true Martian, the yellow coin eyes, the soft musical voices”….
Ray Bradbury..Martian Chronicles..1950.
I’d go, an help build a stable civilization an culture
So be ready
We all certainly should help
Interesting analysis.
Assumptions were not fully disclosed with regard to other human needs: water, oxygen generation/capture, fuel, plants, animals, …
Many ponderables!