We asked ChatGPT what life on Mars will look like and the answer will surprise you

While the Artemis programme will be entering its second phase in just over a year's time, the focus is already on the next space objective: Mars. We haven't yet built bases on the Moon, but our ambition is to one day live on the Red Planet. This conquest will not be without its difficulties, as ChatGPT reminds us.

Mars is a particularly hostile planet

It's been too long since we asked Open AI's Artificial Intelligence an existential question. After giving us its opinion on Joe Biden's successor in the White House, ChatGPT talked to us about life on Mars and the problems we'll have to overcome if we want to settle there permanently.

As the AI reminds us:

The first Martian colonists will have to live in habitats specially designed to protect them from the planet's hostile conditions, including a lack of breathable air, extreme temperatures and dust storms. These habitats could be underground or equipped with advanced technologies to maintain stable living conditions.

As in The Expanse and Total Recall, you won't be able to walk freely on the surface, like you would in a city park on Earth, in a T-shirt and Bermuda shorts... ChatGPT adds:

The inhabitants of Mars will have to wear spacesuits at all times to protect themselves from solar radiation, cold temperatures and the absence of oxygen in the atmosphere. These suits will be essential for outdoor activities.

Unless we terraform Mars, daily life on our neighbouring planet is likely to prove very uncomfortable. What's more, the bot informs us that :

It is important to note that terraforming Mars remains a theoretical hypothesis and a science fiction idea for the time being. The technical, financial and ethical challenges associated with such an undertaking are enormous, and we do not yet have the technologies needed to begin a project of this scale.

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Eating and drinking on Mars

Science would therefore have to make a revolutionary breakthrough before we could see, on the scale of our generation, the fruits of Martian terraforming. But apart from daily life on the planet, what might meals on Mars be like? According to the AI, we'll have to draw a line under prime rib:

Traditional livestock farming on Mars would be difficult due to the absence of grass and environmental constraints. An alternative would be laboratory-grown meat production, where animal cells are used to produce meat without the need for real animals.

To feed ourselves on Mars, we'll have to rely instead on hydroponic crops, algae and... insects! Insects are a very interesting and, above all, much more profitable source of protein. Incidentally, how will we keep hydrated there?

Water on Mars is present mainly in the form of ice, found in the polar ice caps and beneath the surface. The colonists will use extraction techniques to recover this ice. Special drills could be used to extract the ice, which would then be melted to obtain liquid water.

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This article has been translated from Gentside FR.

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