Space Exploration Persuasive Speech

Imagine you wake up, another day, just as always, you get out of the bed, look at the blue-sky through your window, take a deep breath of fresh air and feel the sun warming your skin. Suddenly you hear some air planes, flying at a medium height... And by the time you realize that there have been some fungi-shaped explosions with kilometers of diameter around your location, you hear something falling near you, something big, something you know will be the last thing you will hear…
Now let me change a little the story. Imagine yourself waking up, but this time, with a special white suit; you get out of bed with less effort than the regular; you try to take a deep breath but it doesn’t smell the same as you expected and even your lungs feel different;
Or should we go to another planet, most possibly Mars, and start again, but applying what we have learned from our mistakes on the Earth? That has been a controversial topic on recently years more than ever, mainly due to the fast-growing possibility we find on space exploration and especially on Mars colonies foundation. As you could realize on the stories I mentioned at the beginning, we are no longer safe in any place nor at home; and a nuclear war is not the only threat we consider nowadays on Earth, there are others even older like the possibility of an asteroid impact, an uncontrollable disease that ends with humankind on Earth, natural disasters caused by climate change, and so on. But on Mars there are another whole lot of dangers we would face to, such as solar storms, sandstorms, no oxygen on atmosphere, and maybe lethal microorganisms; and this are just a few compared with all the difficulties we would face while trying to reach Mars, such as economic support, long-time space travel consequences, wastes processing and materials availability on the red
While on their way, they will be weightless; on Mars the gravity is only one third of Earth´s gravity and back on Earth astronauts will need to readapt to Earth´s gravity. When there is no gravity, bones lose minerals, body fluids shift to the head, kidney stones are formed and muscles atrophy (NASA, 2015). Isolation and confinement is another problem, being in a spaceship or in a laboratory on Mars can be monotonous and trying to take a deep breath is difficult on that environment. “Nine months is a long time for any group of people to travel in a small, closed, packed spacecraft… your personal space is reduced to the size of an S.U.V.” (The New York Times, 2015). And it does not matter how well-prepared astronauts are, frustration and conflicts with their partners are almost unavoidable. But emotional and psycological problems look like a tiny issue when you are not protected by an