Scientists have proved version of Martian origin of life on Earth. I want to colonize the planet to get in line were the last hours.
At the conference “Goldschmidt 2013″, has just ended in Florence, it was stated that earthly life is likely to have originated on Mars and came to this planet with the local meteorites.
essence of this statement is not new – for transport of Martian life on Earth has been long. However, it has now been stated by quite a serious man – Professor Steven Benner of Uesthaymerovskogo Institute of Science and Technology (USA), – sounds much more categorical.
On Earth, says Benner, there were no conditions for the emergence of life on Mars, but they just were.
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All matter
RNA that are today considered to have been the first in the world carriers of genetic information – for their formation from primary biobulona light alone and not heat, need more minerals containing all the necessary components. Key among them Professor Benner said boron and molybdenum.
Bohr, he argues, is necessary for the formation of the carbohydrate rings, and molybdenum helps collect these intermediate molecules to form ribose, a simple sugar, for the synthesis of RNA.
Bora, according to Benner, the crust is small, and that there would not be enough for the creation of the first components of the RNA. Molybdenum three billion years ago, like, enough … but not in a form that is required to create RNA.
«The problem is – says Benner – that influence the formation of early life could only strongly oxidized molybdenum, and on the earth in those days there was very little oxygen, so the minerals containing molybdenum necessary for the future life form was not ».
on Mars is three billion years ago were in the right quantities and boron, and molybdenum, and, most importantly, there was oxygen. Mars, says Benner, was better suited for the origin of life than Earth, but keep it on the surface, he could not – he did it for our planet.
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So, wild, fantastic idea that Mars was once our home, suddenly began to take shape. It begins to look even wilder, more fantastic and at the same time is even more realistic shape, if you remember the fanatical desire of many representatives of humanity as soon as possible to begin the colonization of the Red Planet.
There is, for example, a private project Mars One , according to the plans of which the first settlers must be on Mars within ten years after the official start of the project – April 22, 2023. Joking aside, as stated on the website of the project, to head back to the first Martian “Mayflower” expressed a desire to have more than 165 thousand people.
This “Martian fever” started relatively recently, in 2010, with publication in the journal Journal of Cosmology article with the intriguing title “Boldly forward in permanent mission to Mars,” where authors planetary scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University and cosmologist Paul Davies of Arizona State University, said it was time for the colonization of Mars.
main idea of ??this article was the fact that from the very beginning of the colonization of this should be done on an irrevocable basis – the astronaut who went there is a one way ticket, then there will remain there until his death, for the simple reason that it is a safe return many times more expensive than the rest of the mission.
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The article provides an example of colonization regulations. First, there go two spacecraft with two astronauts in each. Once on the surface of the Red Planet, they are “a pillar of land”, that is, begin the development of a pre-selected caves, many of which are now found there, and engaged in the primary arrangement of the base. From the Earth to them regularly sent supplies, food, equipment, in short, all that is necessary for the survival, development and further development of the base. As its readiness to be sent to Mars, more and more specialists settlers – like the first four, they come here for good, without any hope of returning home.
Over time base is able to obtain water, food (here, by the way, can play an important role synthetic biology Craig Venter, the biologist, the first read through the human genome that is already interested in the project.) Eventually there comes a time when the base is a self-contained unit that does not need outside help. At this point, the authors of the article, the process of colonization of Mars will begin the countdown.
Academician Lev Zeleny, director of the Institute for Space Research, in a conversation with a reporter “Gazety.Ru” very skeptical attitude to the idea of ??the conquest of Mars today and so.
«To me this seems impossible today – he said – no finance or technical capabilities of mankind. Zero temperatures, lack of atmosphere, strong radiation, by the way, is more powerful than in space – it’s a little like those on the coast, which was once stuck “Mayflower».
If we add here a frenzied high cost of the project (the very first trip to Mars would cost many billions of dollars) and the lethal dangers lying in wait for the astronauts on the way to the Red Planet, then the possibility of its implementation in the foreseeable future, you can easily put the cross.
However, this cross for some reason does not bother anyone. Already at the time of publication of an article about the “ticket to Mars one-way” existed a very similar project of NASA, entitled “Starship century» (Hundred Year Starship).
Mars One project was quietly launched a year after the publication of the article, Schulze-Makusha and Davis, and today the project plans do not differ from the plans, set out in that article, is that they became more detailed prescription. In April of this year, Mars One announced the recruitment of volunteers, and by June, that number exceeded 85 thousand people. Another two months – and a hundred thousand! By the way, accepting applications from volunteers space ends on Saturday.
People like waiting for the people there and throw the cry: “Let’s do the impossible and let us strive to colonize Mars”, as immediately the call was picked up by many tens of thousands … romantics, adventurers, commit suicide? And we have no doubt the news that our homeland Mars, will spur even more “Martian fever».
