Have you ever wondered about Mars? Have you ever wondered about traveling to Mars? Well you probably have. Traveling to mars overall would be great for the human population, but the many backfiring risks tend to outway the little benefits from traveling to Mars. There are many problems with traveling to space. One problem is that traveling to space may take a long time and cause Chronic Boredom. Space travel takes a long time and is 8 months to mars each way. This would cause Chronic Boredom because the mind wouldn’t have any stimuli for months. In “Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death!” it states that ”With current technology, the journey takes more than eight months each way. Which means that astronauts will get bored.” (“Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death!”) Chronic Boredom would make your mind desperate for activity and will make your mind“...desperate for something to amuse it, searching frantically for stimulus.” (“Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death!”) Chronic Boredom is one of many reasons why the risks outweigh the benefits of …show more content…
Time and effort that could be used and spent on other real, world problems instead of exploring Mars. There could be better use of our time and effort. When we go to space, we have to make the rockets and calculate the amount of fuel that goes in rockets. There are many things needed to be done for space travel such as ”...multistage rockets to propel a spacecraft out of Earth’s atmosphere, years of planning and precise calculations and massive amounts of fuel, traveling the tens of millions of miles to Mars will take a tremendous amount of time.” (“Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death!”) These activities necessary to space travel can take a long time and there a better ways that we can use our time and effort instead of traveling to