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The 10 Most Useful Skills if You Move to Mars
#3 Emotional and psychological stability.
Last week we (NASA) landed a rover on Mars. In the next two years, it will explore the planet, drill the surface and look for signs of previous life.
This is the first of several missions heading to Mars. The most ambitious plan is led by SpaceX, which aims to send a group of people in 2026.
This opens up new possibilities, the chance to become the first humans to step onto a new planet. It means we need to ask ourselves questions like: Do I want to go to Mars? Do I have what it takes to live on Mars? To even survive?
For most people, the answers to these questions will probably be no. Only certain people can handle this type of extreme situation. But we can still think about what it takes to live on another planet. What skills would be most needed to colonise, thrive, and survive?
Will it be specialists who are extremely good at one thing, or will we need generalists who can master many skills to a high level? Probably it’s some combination of the two. This is my highly subjective list of skills that I think will be most useful on Mars.
Why go to Mars in the first place?
“You want to wake up in the morning and…
