Hawking predicted: Will humans colonize Mars within 40 years?

Hawking, a British physicist, was worried about the fate of mankind before his death. He repeatedly said that "if human beings want to continue, they must emigrate to Mars or other planets". He believes that Mars is the first planet that human beings need to explore seriously. There may be an environment necessary for human survival on Mars, and it is even directly predicted that human beings can colonize Mars within 40 years.

On the evening of July 25th, 20 18, Beijing time, Reuters broadcast live the "press conference held by scientists after the first discovery of liquid water on Mars". The first liquid water lake with a diameter of 20km was finally discovered on Mars. It was not hidden under the deep glacier, but above the ice sheet, which was clearly visible.

Suspected lakes on Mars

This great discovery once again fulfilled Hawking's prediction that Mars has human living conditions, because besides oxygen, the most important living condition for human beings is water. With water, there is life and hope.

In fact, looking back at the history of human exploration of Mars, we can find that the pace of human exploration has never stopped.

Mars is the planet closest to the earth's orbit, and it has many similarities with the earth. For example, its rotation period is almost the same as that of the earth, and a day on Mars is only 4 1 min 19 seconds longer than a day on the earth. Even since the tilt of the axis, it has obvious seasonal changes almost like the earth.

So in history, human beings have been taking steps to Mars. As early as the winter of 1962, the Soviet Union launched the "Mars 1" probe to Mars. Before reaching Mars, it lost contact with the Earth and never disappeared.

Until July of 1965 and 15, Mariner 4, which was launched to Mars by the United States, finally took 2 1 photo at a distance of 10000 km from Mars, which caused a sensation in the world. Although there are no special discoveries except many craters, this is the real meaning of the first time that humans have seen Mars.

The history of Mars exploration is always accompanied by mysticism. One of the most famous events is 1976' s "Mars Face" event.

Suspected "human face" shape on Mars

This photo was taken by the Viking 1 orbiter launched by the United States. It was ignored in thousands of photos at that time. Later, it was discovered and caused a sensation in the world. This figure looks too much like a human face, and its expression is extremely mysterious, a bit like Mona Lisa. Many people think that this may be an expression of life on Mars to human beings. Is it a warning or goodwill?

Then there is this woman on Mars.

This photo was also released by NASA. It was taken in 2007, and the location was also Mars. It looks like a woman walking.

In fact, I think the most mysterious thing is an unsolved case about Mars in the former Soviet Union.

Yute Posov, an aerospace expert of the former Soviet Union, once disclosed that1on March 27th, 990, the Soviet spacecraft had photographed a group of strange shapes on Mars, and the characters were very similar to the English word "leave". After the shooting, the spacecraft lost contact with the ground.

According to Hawking's theory, don't get in touch with aliens easily, which is "as dangerous as Americans taking the initiative to find Columbus".

However, this major discovery of Mars may make mankind take a big step in exploring Mars.

Looking up at the starry sky, what do you think of Hawking's predictions and warnings?