Will people call themselves Martians one day?
Mars has always held a special place in the popular imagination. As one of our closest planetary neighbors, Mars is bright enough to be seen in the night sky with the naked eye. Records of the planet go back as far as 400 B.C. – the Babylonians called Mars ‘Nergal,’ the king of conflicts, while the Egyptians dubbed it ‘Har Decher,’ or the Red One.
Unsurprisingly, there were those who thought that there might be little green men on Mars. In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli spotted what he described as “canali”, a term which was interpreted as “canals” in English, but which was really closer to “channels”. This mistranslation gave the impression that these channels were artificial, giving rise to rampant speculation about civilization on Mars.
Fast-forward to today, and we’ve entered an era where commercial space flight seems almost viable, with companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic all testing their own rockets. So when Elon Musk took to the stage at the International Astronautical Congress in September to detail his plans to turn humanity into a multi-planet species, the audience waited with bated breath.
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