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Gary Fogg Public and private efforts to colonize Mars are underway. Most of these projects hope to land people on the red planet within about 15 years.

While mankind eagerly anticipates this adventure, we might also wonder how a civilization elsewhere in the galaxy might view our conquest of another world.

If these creatures are more humane than ourselves, I think they will be alarmed by our presence on Mars for four reasons.

One, we fight among ourselves endlessly.

Two, we kill, eat or enslave all other species as we please.

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Between Mars One sounding fishy and Curiosity finding nitrogen, Mars is back in the news (if it ever really left). There's still an interest in colonizing "The Angry Red Planet," but that's still a long way off from happening. I can only presume that's because the folks at NASA and the other space exploration organizations haven't taken the lessons of Man Plus to heart.

Man Plus is a Nebula Award-winning novel by science fiction legend Frederik Pohl. If that's not enough to sell you on it, it's worth buying for the gorgeous cover by Lee Edwards (accept no substitutions!) that's accurate to the story inside.

Getting back to Pohl's story, Man Plus is set in a world where a powder keg of international relations will ignite if Mars doesn't get colonized pronto. The major stumbling block to this venture is (obviously) that Mars isn't hospitable to human life. That's why they're taking the lateral solution to retrofit astronauts with cybernetic parts so they can survive on Mars.

After the first cyborg astronaut dies (a "Man Minus" catastrophe), Roger Torraway is conscripted as his replacement much to his chagrin. The transformation process involves scooping out his insufficient sensory and respiratory organs to replacing them with upgrades suited to Martian atmosphere. He also has a computer uplink in his brain to allow him to process his fancy new stimuli receptors. In order to power his superstrong cyberconverted body, two enormous solar panels shaped like wings are grafted onto his back. The end result is that Torraway looks like Man-Bat or a red Parademon.

Also important: Torraway gets completely gelded. This is vital to Martian colonization for several reasons: 1) External genitalia would throw off his balance since his body now has to support humongous wing-shaped batteries; 2) They've given him a cloaca to simplify excretion & reduce the likelihood of internal contamination; and 3) They don't want to risk Torraway (who's being cuckolded) becoming so horny he inadvertently compromises his augmented body or the mission. They do preserve some sperm in case he wants to procreate later. Sadly they don't modify it so all his children will be born cyber-gargoyles.

What's fascinating about Man Plus is how Pohl picks what might be the most ludicrous option but plays it completely straight. The book highlights both the engineering problems of creating a Mars-ready cyborg and the psychodrama of Torraway coping with having been transformed into that cyborg. (It's still endearingly goofy out of context.)

Tons of stress is placed upon perfecting the cyborg to ensure the future of space colonization, but then Torraway is sent to terraform Mars with non-cyborg astronauts in the finale. There's a twist ending that attempts to justify why a cyborg was needed when normal astronauts were cable of terraforming the planet by themselves but it's a bit daft. (I would've preferred it if everybody who goes to live on mars has to be upgraded with no terraforming.) So the Man Plus Project turns out to not be the wisest investment in tax payer resources. I can't complain too much though because CYBORG MAN-BAT IN SPACE!

Can you think of any zanier interplanetary colonization tales?

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Monica Pondrelli and colleagues investigated the Equatorial Layered Deposits (ELDs) of Arabia Terra in Firsoff crater area, Mars, to understand their formation and potential habitability. On the plateau, ELDs consist of rare mounds, flat-lying deposits, and cross-bedded dune fields. Pondrelli and colleagues interpret the mounds as smaller spring deposits, the flat-lying deposits as playa, and the cross-bedded dune fields as aeolian.

They write that groundwater fluctuations appear to be the major factor controlling ELD deposition.

Pondrelli and colleagues also note that the ELDs inside the craters would likely have originated by fluid upwelling through the fissure ridges and the mounds, and that lead to evaporite precipitation. The presence of spring and playa deposits points to the possible presence of a hydrological cycle, driving groundwater upwelling on Mars at surface temperatures above freezing.

Pondrelli and colleagues write that such conditions in a similar Earth environment would have been conducive for microbial colonization.

As a basis for their research, Pondrelli and colleagues produced a detailed geological map of the Firsoff crater area.

The new map includes crater count dating, a survey of the stratigraphic relations, and analysis of the depositional geometries and compositional constraints. They note that this ELD unit consists of sulfates and shows other characteristics typical of evaporites such as polygonal pattern and indications of dissolution.

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More evidence for groundwater on Mars: Conditions would be conducive for microbial colonization if on Earth

Figure 1 is from Pondrelli et al. (A) Location map of the study area on MOLA-based shaded relief map. Topographic contours (in black, 1000 m spacing) are indicated. (B) High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) mosaic of the mapped area. Topographic contours (in white, 500 m spacing) are indicated. (C) Excerpt of the geological map by Scott and Tanaka (1986) on an HRSC mosaic. Geologic units (see text for more details): Npl1--Noachian cratered unit of the plateau sequence; Npl2--Noachian subdued crater unit of the plateau sequence; Hr--Hesperian ridged plains material. (D) Footprints of High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) coverage on an HRSC mosaic. The white fi lling indicates stereo pairs. The area is fully covered by Context Camera (CTX) imagery. Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) scenes used in this study are recognizable by the hourglass shape. Credit Pondrelli et al. and GSA Bulletin

Boulder, Colo., USA - Monica Pondrelli and colleagues investigated the Equatorial Layered Deposits (ELDs) of Arabia Terra in Firsoff crater area, Mars, to understand their formation and potential habitability. On the plateau, ELDs consist of rare mounds, flat-lying deposits, and cross-bedded dune fields. Pondrelli and colleagues interpret the mounds as smaller spring deposits, the flat-lying deposits as playa, and the cross-bedded dune fields as aeolian. They write that groundwater fluctuations appear to be the major factor controlling ELD deposition.

Pondrelli and colleagues also note that the ELDs inside the craters would likely have originated by fluid upwelling through the fissure ridges and the mounds, and that lead to evaporite precipitation. The presence of spring and playa deposits points to the possible presence of a hydrological cycle, driving groundwater upwelling on Mars at surface temperatures above freezing. Pondrelli and colleagues write that such conditions in a similar Earth environment would have been conducive for microbial colonization.

As a basis for their research, Pondrelli and colleagues produced a detailed geological map of the Firsoff crater area. The new map includes crater count dating, a survey of the stratigraphic relations, and analysis of the depositional geometries and compositional constraints. They note that this ELD unit consists of sulfates and shows other characteristics typical of evaporites such as polygonal pattern and indications of dissolution.

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Equatorial layered deposits in Arabia Terra, Mars: Facies and process variability M. Pondrelli et al., International Research School of Planetary Sciences, Universit d'Annunzio, Pescara, Italy. Published online ahead of print on 10 Mar. 2015; http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/B31225.1.

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