It is known that I am not very enthousiastic about Mars. I hear others discussing about colonizing the planet, want to live there. It is a dead toxic planet. I don’t share the hysteria of Elon Musk to occupy Mars. We don’t have the technololgy to go there. Because of the radiation people would be dead before arriving there. And even if you should arrive then on the surface of the planet the radiation is deadly too. You could only survive underground. Why go to a planet to live underground?

Planet Mars had a simular start as Earth but lost most of its atmosphere and lost its magnetic field. It is good to send our robot rovers to do the searching for us. To search for evidence that there once was life.

We are good at that, sending robot rovers on a mission. We should do that to other planets aswell. And we do that.

From a very young age I am fascinated with the beauty of our home planet Earth. As a young boy I asked myself so many questions about where I live, on the planet I live. The land, beaches, mountains, forrests, seas, oceans and the animals living there . I was and still am so eager to learn about our planet. A bit older now and still curious and fascinated about our planet I walk along the same shores as I did when I was a young kid, enjoying the sound of the waves and the saulty smell of the sea water, seeing the seaguls flying low above the water looking for a meal or resting on the beaches.

The fact that our planet is what she is now is not because of one major thing. It’s because of a lot of things coming together that creates a possibility for a planet to evolve as a habitalbe planet as our home planet now is. A habitable planet does not neccesary has life. It has the possibility to harbour life. And Earth is full of life. This has not always been this way. Earth has a history of some mass extinctions but life always seemed to recover after such a period.

Earth is fascinating, beautiful also seen from space. We, you and I are very fortunate to be living on it.

The development I’m talking about is the development of species, development of life. Life on Earth and maybe life elsewhere in the universe. Is there life elsewhere? The only answer to that question is ‘we don’t know’. We are searching for life in the universe, for evidence of past life. We need to be patient on this one because this can take some time.

Life on our own planet Earth started about 3.7 billion years ago and you could say that humans evolved themselves to an intellectual level by now. So on Earth it took 3.7 billion years from one cell organisms to intellectual life. This evolution had some setbacks because of 7 mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth. But life managed to bounce back every time so far. And our development goes on because why should it stop? In fact, evolution has one simple rule : adapt or die. Species that are able to adapt to the changes of the environment have a good chance of survival and further development. Those who struggle or cannot adapt have a serious problem in surviving. We humans are capable to adapt, we have come so far and are able to continue.

We know where we come from but where are we going? What are we as an intellectual species going to do with our capacities and qualities that we made our own during our evolution from single cell organism to an intellectual species? We can put them in use to raise our quality of life, to raise the quality of life for all species on Earth and taking care of our planet and also to explore others worlds, exploring the universe.