2. What would you miss the most about Earth? List any one
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We’d miss being alive because there’s just no way we could all live there even if we could magically migrate there all at once. There’s not enough energy to support billions of people on Mars. The planet is very energy poor.
So, change the question to “if you had to live on Mars with a modest-sized group of people (maybe 100).”
Start with the good stuff. You wouldn’t miss Earth’s crushing gravity and the associated ills of sore backs and worn-out knees. You wouldn’t miss all of the pollution.
Now, for the bad stuff. Well, maybe not. The list must have dozens if not a hundred or more items. You’d miss fresh air just as a beginning. You’d miss your usual foodstuffs because all food would be plant-based (and based on yeasts and other protozoa). Mars has too little energy to waste on growing animals just so you can (unnecessarily) eat them. You’d miss the bright sun and the clouds and the winds (winds on Mars are nothing like on Earth) and rain — not to mention that special smell after a rain.
You’d miss oceans, lakes, and rivers. You’d miss pets.
Well, as I wrote, the list is long and goes on and on.
Do not go to Mars unless you are ready to miss virtually everything that makes life pleasant on Earth. You will face possible death every day without much compensation. Many explorers did this in the past, but they did expect compensation of some sort when they returned home (if they returned home). Going to Mars as you suggest means no return to home.
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Originally Answered: What do you think you would miss most about the earth after living on Mars for several years?
I guess Mother Earth herself, and mostly through seemingly routine but in fact extraordinary and magical things which are mostly taken for granted unfortunately . Things like the sweet scent of wet soil which caresses your soul after the rain; the overwhelming joy and delight which embraces your body and mind and soul in the majestic presence of Mother Nature and the ultimate ecstasy of finding yourself as one with the soil and trees and leaves and plants and the grass and all the animals, etc.; waking up in the morning at the seaside by the splendid sound of the waves that will keep on rolling long after we’re gone and therefore remind us of the fleeting nature of both us and our problems and concerns; the breathtakingly beautiful sky and the innumerable stars which always remind me of that great quote out of Aleister Crowley’s “Book of the Law”, “Every man and woman is a star” and thus make me notice that no matter how fleeting, each of us is and will be a unique unrepeatable phenomenon who is obliged to do his/her best to fulfill their true potential; etc.
And all the thoughts and feelings perfectly described by one of the characters in my most favorite novel of all time by my most favorite novelist - Kirilov in “Demons” (The Possessed) by F. M. Dostoevsky:
“There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it's heavenly, but man cannot endure it in his earthly state. One must change physically or die. The feeling is clear and indisputable. As if you suddenly sense the whole of nature and suddenly say: yes, this is true. God, when he was creating the world, said at the end of each day of creation: 'Yes, this is true, this is good.' This . . . this is not tenderheartedness, but simply joy. You don't forgive anything, because there is no longer anything to forgive. You don't really love — oh, what is here is higher than love! What's most frightening is that it's so terribly clear, and there's such joy. If it were longer than five seconds — the soul couldn't endure it and would vanish. In those five seconds I live my life through, and for them I would give my whole life, because it's worth it. To endure ten seconds one would have to change physically...”
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