Why we need to go to Mars

Putting a human on the Moon forced first principles. Materials, computing, imaging, navigation, life support — the residual benefits are still paying dividends in ordinary Tuesday life. A hard destination made Earth smarter. Mars is the next hard destination. Not a rocket ad. A reason to understand the mill well enough that two humans can go and come home.

The Medical Industrial Complex — Currents #41–#50 — is a charter built for a pill for an ill on a planet with grocery stores and night. Vacuum, radiation, bone unload, a closed loop, three years of minting ATP without a hospital on the corner — that charter does not know the biology at the level required to protect it. Profits over people will not return two humans vitally healthy and ready for the next watch.

MEGA-Vitality is Metabolic Energy Generating ATP. Sleep, Eat, Move, Connect, Relax — Earth rehearsal so the mill still mints when the river is vacuum. Gonzalez is the how. Two humans to Mars and back, vitally healthy, ready for another mission. That is the destination. Current #100 is you.

Will you treat Mars as the reason the mill must be understood — and still keep the five as Earth rehearsal? The answer is yours. You can take it. You can leave it. No one can take it for you.

If you take it, eat tonight. Practice the day. That is why Mars — not as a poster, as a standard the mill has to meet.

If you want to keep learning, keep flowing with our Currents. You can do it is next.