4th Planet from the Sun: Mars
by I just finished Kim Stanley Robinson‘s 2132 so space and Mars is already on my mind. Robinson is probably best known for his Blue/Green/Red Mars trilogy. All of those books touch on terraforming Mars, the concept that we might alter the atmosphere — the entire planetary system — of Mars such that ultimately it could be inhabitable by humans. Here’s a video on the idea from Michio Kaku, a Professor of Theoretical Physics at CUNY and Science-Person-On-TeeVee: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvhOepio4Q&w=560&h=315] But today, we haven’t even sent a human to Mars. Still in my lifetime the most exciting part of the space program has …