When Will Humans Travel to Mars?

The Mars Immigration Project ^[1] is a plan to immigrate to Mars and establish a community on Mars as disclosed by Elon Musk to the media. In February 2015, it was exposed as a scam, and there may be no return and it also touches on some ethical issues.

Mars Immigration Program

Mars is the closest planet to Earth except Venus. Due to changes in its orbit, its distance from Earth is between 55.7 million and 120 million kilometers. Mars glows like fire in the night sky, and the brightness often changes, which is confusing. Therefore, Mars in ancient China was called "glue". In ancient Roman mythology, it was imagined as the Mars, the god of war in blood, covered with armor, which is also the origin of the English name of Mars. ^[3-5]

Mars migration program (Mars immigrant plans) is the president and founder of SpaceX

The first step in completing a self-sufficient settlement and migrating to Mars' specific plan is to first make Mars reach the tipping point of "environmental globalization"-warming the cold planet. The temperature near Mars' equator can sometimes reach above 0 ° C. To completely melt the frozen matter on Mars, at least the outer atmosphere of Mars must reach about 40 ° C. Unlike Earth's efforts to curb the greenhouse effect, Zuberin said humans are about to create a "huge greenhouse effect" on Mars. In Zu Berlin's plan, this step was completed around 2150 years. Zublin proposed three options for warming Mars, the third of which was endorsed by many scientists. ^[4]

UAE bans Muslim immigration from Mars, claims low survival rate violates teachings ^[11]

According to a report by CNN on the 25th, the UAE Islamic Affairs and Religious Funds Authority has issued a religious directive recently warning Muslims not to migrate to Mars-the reason is that the survival rate of such a journey that is not going back is too low, which is no different from "Suicide", which is not allowed by Islamic teachings. ^[11]

In April 2013, the Netherlands-based non-profit organization "Mars One" Foundation announced that it will establish human settlements on Mars in 2024, and has been selected from more than 200,000 people applying to migrate to Mars worldwide. Out of 1058 candidates. It is not known how many Muslims have been selected, but the foundation said that applicants came from 107 countries and regions. However, the UAE's Islamic Affairs and Religious Funds Authority believes that this journey is tantamount to suicide, and it is against Islamic teaching to end someone's life at will. On a toll-free 24-hour hotline at the UAE's Islamic Affairs and Religious Funds Authority, the head of the hotline said after careful consideration: "It is not allowed to travel to Mars or settle in Mars. On Mars, the chance of human death is greater than the chance of survival . " ^[11]

The Mars One Foundation responded. The foundation issued a statement requesting Islamic religious institutions in the UAE to cancel the directive and said it would take all precautions to reduce risk. The statement stated that "the first Martian settlers were following the footsteps of Muslim pioneers such as the 14th-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta." ^[11]

Muslim culture does not exclude space navigation, and there have been Muslim space explorers before. The world s first Muslim space tourist was Saudi Arabia s prince Ben Salman Al Saudi, who flew into space in 1985 on the US spacecraft Discovery. In 2006, Iranian-American Ansari became the first Iranian woman to enter space. In addition, in order to help Muslims fulfill their religious obligations in space, the Malaysian government has developed special guidelines. In 2006, the Malaysian Space Agency specially convened a conference attended by Islamic scientists and scholars to solve the problem of Muslim astronauts fulfilling their religious obligations in space, and formulated detailed rules, which are included in the book "Code of Worship in the International Space Station". ^[11]