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Planet B. Colonial patterns in visual communication and space exploration
Introduction “We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.” Joseph A. Cooper, Interstellar by Christopher Nolan I was always fascinated by science fiction novels. It is hard not to be when one were born in the country that actively participated in the space race and sent the first human into the cosmos. So when Interstellar, a science fiction movie by Christofer Nolan, was released in 2014, it easily became my favorite one. The only thing I would not believe back then is how close this scenario is to reality we are facing right now. With my passionate interest in space exploration and science fiction, I saw moving to Mars as a topic of study with great potential and expected it to be very fun to work on. But in the process, I discovered an incredible depth to it: moving to Mars is so much more than just the pure scientific joy of becoming a multiplanetary species. Reviewing the topic of space exploration, I noticed some major issues that are often critiqued in the scientific world, and I would like to put these topics to a broader discussion. In this paper, I would like to focus on the ethical side of the problem.
