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On Feb. 18, NASA s Perseverance Rover landed on Mars… and immediately began tweeting about it, which made us wonder whether robots deserve to inherit the Earth after all. (We re kidding. Obviously a human team is doing the tweets; Perseverance doesn t care. It s busy off-roading, taking cool pics and collecting rocks to send back home. Vacationing, basically.)
Perseverance s arrival, after seven months of travel, makes the race to put people on Mars feel more urgent. It s not just a NASA or SpaceX ambition; China and the United Arab Emirates are also eyeing the Red Planet. And nobody seems interested in a quickie round-trip, like the Moon landing. Most everybody wants to start a colony there.
Fridays For Future â1%â spot
“1%” satirically illuminates the extreme focus to colonize Mars and motivates everyone else to fix climate change on Earth.
Responses by Fred & Farid Los Angeles
Background: After much talk about climate change, everybody knows it’s a problem, but many people still aren’t doing anything to change it. Greta Thunberg’s global climate movement and activist organization, Fridays For Future, needed to get humans to care really care and motivate them to start fixing climate change on Earth, now.
Reasoning: The mission to colonize Mars is gaining momentum. In 2020, NASA launched its Perseverance rover, the United Arab Emirates launched its Hope orbiter, and China launched its Tianwen-1 orbiter and rover duo. These were all efforts to further explore the Red Planet. Elon Musk has also said he’s “highly confident” SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026.