WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | WOULD I MOVE TO A MARS SETTLEMENT

HAHA nope. Not even a tiny chance. For so many reasons, but if I had to bring it down to basics, I don’t like small spaces and generally space travel is quite a cramped affair. I also don’t love wide open spaces… so you know, it hits on both. I also quite like this planet, with all its faults and nutso people and imminent implosion. I still hold out a tiny sliver of hope that we can save it, or at least not entirely destroy it. I think Earth is a wonderful place, in large part because it’s teeming with life. Mars seems like such a barren wasteland, one where you couldn’t grow things outside or create any kind of natural landscape. I hate the idea of trying to live a pod or biome life, and I also don’t do well when I’m stuck in confined situations with people – neurodivergent here. I like things how I like them, which rarely gels with how everyone else likes to do things. And I don’t love the idea, assuming we even managed to survive, of being in a small colony of surviving humans completely separate from Earth and, presumably, never going back. That’s a lot of pressure. I don’t have a ton of skills that would come in handy on a Mars settlement either – unless there’s suddenly an urgent need for knitted goods or banana chocolate chip coconut pancakes. Would there even be chocolate on Mars? OMG there’s a terrifying thought. Yeah, no thanks, I’ll stay with the burning world that has the chocolate, thanks.

What about you guys? I figure a lot of you will probably be much more adventurous than I am, and possibly even excited by the prospect of a space adventure. What are your thoughts on the matter? (Bonus points if you can work space cowboys into the mix somehow.)

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