Elon Musk has announced that he plans to start landing colonists on Mars by 2022, and I for one could not be more excited about the prospect. Humanity is taking its first steps into the final frontier, and there’s nothing more thrilling than the idea of being an interstellar pioneer. Assuming a minor pilot error doesn’t turn the landing into the debut of the first interplanetary mass grave, you will touch down on the dusty plains of Mars knowing that you are among the first people to truly expand humanity’s definition of home. RelatedAnd it is not just your experience: your deeds will live forever, written into the history of the growing colony on Mars as long as it isn’t wiped out by an unimaginably vicious microbe that has lain dormant under the rocky soil only to be unleashed by our unthinking construction crews. As a founder, your name will echo through the ages on street signs and public buildings, as loudly as the panicked screams of “WE’RE NOT ALONE!

Source: National Post September 29, 2016 18:22 UTC