'A fascinating and enticing vision of the utopian New World that
Robert Zubrin believes could and should be created on the Red
Planet’ Martin ReesThe world's leading expert on the human
settlement of Mars explains what Martian societies will look like -
sooner than we thinkWithin a few years, humans will be able to
voyage to Mars. SpaceX is at the forefront of companies already
building fleets of spaceships to make interplanetary travel as
affordable as Old-World passage to America – to the then New World.
We will settle the red planet, transforming its raw materials into
resources and tackling the challenges that await us, creating a new
frontier for humankind.Dr Robert Zubrin explains how populous
Martian city-states will emerge, producing their own air, water,
food, power and more. How they must be beautiful to attract
settlers, and what that might look like. How the primary exports
are unlikely to be material goods but intellectual products,
created by a technically adept population in a frontier environment
where people will be forced to innovate – including GMOs, robotics,
AI and power production.Zubrin even predicts the red planet’s
customs, social relations and government – of the people, by the
people, for the people, with inalienable individual rights – that
will overcome traditional forms of oppression to draw talented
Earth immigrants. In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote ‘We have it in our
power to begin the world over again’. Zubrin inspires us to embrace
another magnificent future today.With the right pieces in place,
his red planet will become a pressure cooker for invention,
benefiting humans on Earth, Mars and beyond. The New World on Mars
proves that there is no point killing each other over provinces on
Earth when, together, we can create planets.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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