Unless you’ve driven a magnificent beast 2000 miles without it ever occurring to you to put on a goddamn seat belt or put your kid in a car seat, while listening to Johnny Mathis 8-tracks, in a haze of Pall Mall smoke, to the edge of the fucking Grand Canyon, shut the fuck up.
It was 1903. The world was changing. The Wright brothers had proven that man could fly, and a new kind of energy was coursing through the nation. America was on the rise.
#mars
The Martian atmosphere was incredibly thin, and the spacecraft had to be constantly adapted to the extreme conditions.
But finally, in November of 1914, the first colonists arrived on Mars.
The society that had been dreamed of for years was now a reality.
It won't be long now, Joe. We'll be on Mars in no time.
I hope so. I hope they have a nice planet over there. It's not like Earth, but I suppose it could be worse.
I think the only thing that worries me is the fact that we might not be able to get back.
But let's not worry about that now. Let's just get on with it.
I know you're right. We'll just have to take things one day at a time. Hey, one day we'll be able to write about this trip and tell the whole world about it.