I was intrigued by the idea that Roger Launius brought up about feasible ways to get humans to Mars, when he mentioned the idea of the multigenerational space shuttle.\u00a0 He posed many questions about this, such as whether or not the people on the space shuttle would know what they were supposed to do when they got to Mars one thousand years in the future, and whether they would even want to leave the space shuttle.\u00a0 This left me with many more questions.\u00a0 One of them was that if these people did generationally \u201cforget\u201d what they were supposed to do and why they were there, would they find themselves in a similar state to the one we are in now, where we are realizing that our resources that once seemed infinite are suddenly finite?\u00a0 Would they send missions to Earth, trying to find a place with more resources where they could live?\u00a0 This is quite a concept.\u00a0 Additionally, if this multigenerational space shuttle were to serve as a microlab of humanity, would their language develop and change?\u00a0 Would they develop a unique religion?\u00a0 What sorts of social structures would develop and change in this microlab?\u00a0 This was one of the most thought-provoking lectures in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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