The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday August 4th, 2022
Perhaps Not Yet Mars by Jan Sand
As a kid back in the 1930’s I was fascinated by the literature of H. G. Wells. Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and the many others who described the possible adventures of travelling off this planet to spread human civilization elsewhere in this solar system and beyond. Actually seeing the initial phases of this possibility in my lifetime seemed impossibly remote in those early days, but the technologies post WWII moved very quickly to edge into actuality towards realizing what might be needed towards the first primitive steps in that fantasy.
As with much in the development of human technology, initial funding for rapid advance in the totally new required generous funding from military possibilities and space venturing was no exception. This century has finally seen the growth of several civilian firms invading the technological field of space in supplementing the several governmental efforts in satellite launches and the necessary machineries of maintaining space stations and sending probes throughout our solar system and beyond. Elaborate plans and initial technology is moving along to establish bases on our Moon and to Mars but making that a profitable exercise is mainly theoretical since the financial requirements are immense and the unknown dangers of human space habitation can be quite severe and very difficult to ensure routine safety. The growing dangers to normal existence on our home planet is frequently offered to justify initial attempts to set up off planet colonies as a backup to human existence with not much known as to how Earth creatures would react to exoplanetary fundamental differences to local Earth ecology such as differences in gravity and exposure to cosmic radiation and local atmospheres are so radically fundamental that it might require basic design changes in DNA and other organic systems to permit even the fundamentals of life persistence to perform properly.
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Sunflowers #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“An old man sits
On a park bench
With a big bright
Bouquet
Of sunflowers,
And the sun
Is shinning
Through the treetops
And the children
Play on the nearby
Swings and seesaws.”
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A fistful of cactus #32 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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