Why Indians are ideal candidates for colonising Mars

Why Indians are ideal candidates for colonizing Mars: kuchkas

NASA has been in the forefront of knowledge and quest for understanding our universe. It has journeyed into unknown lands where mankind has not gone before and continues to do so. Most, if not all, of scientific, engineering, medical and IT developments have been a by-product of such pursuits by  NASA, the Soviet and European space research. 

Colonizing another planet and trying to recreate livable conditions for human beings seem to be one of the next frontiers.  While the search for extra-terrestrial life anywhere in our Universe would be the ultimate triumph of such endeavors, our ability to travel far and wide and find ways to exist in alien worlds will be the practical offshoot of such scientific quests. It also has vast potential for unimaginable and exponential growth in engineering, material science, application etc. As an offshoot. 

The attached news report mentions about NASA's experiment of assigning five humans to a dome, 36" in dia, with no fresh air or food for twelve months. The idea is to try and simulate conditions expected to prevail in Mars and see how they adjust to lack of space, lack of privacy, lack of tasty and fresh food, fresh water and air etc . Obviously, an experiment, that then will  lead to necessary technologies and behavior controlling know how that will help manage a prolonged stay in an alien world like Mars. At enormous cost and huge amount of time.

This is where NASA and the Soviets are making a mistake. It only shows that they lack an understanding of conditions in our own planet! They have a vast pool of already acclimatised and suitably adjusted people who are battle ready for a long stay in Mars, if the conditions NASA is testing is correct.  Here itself. On our planet. In a country called India! 

Take a look at Mumbai. Pick any spot, the Dharavi slum, the chawl in Koliwada, the 21 storey matchbox structure in Parel, any of the scores of locations. See the space density in these dwellings. Ten to 12 people, old, young, just married and children live within 200sft space. Clean air? Whats that? They ask. Or take a walk in the tribal areas of BIhar, Orissa or Telengana. The " dome" they live in has few dried leafs as a roof, some dried twigs as walls! They have withstood fiercely adverse weather conditions for ages. Food is available once a day and occasionally half of the inhabitants go hungry. All these men and women have eaten, slept, and attended natures call, all without privacy. And they have behaved perfectly well! They 

also have an additional threat not expected to be encountered in Mars. Their fellow men who, part of the establishment, who come and harm their women and children! This also they have adjusted too!

The present Political dispensation, often seen to espouse a Make in India option, is best advised to talk to NASA and advise them of India's willingness to offer, at a price, men and women primed and ready to undertake the  Mars sojourn. At a fraction of the cost they plan to incur. It will be another of the cheap human capital India has offered to the world like in the middle east, the IT world etc. India at the frontier of knowledge! Imagine. We will be the first humans to colonise Mars!

Sweet revenge for being colonised and subjugated for thousands of years.  Mars here we come. Jai hind!