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Before Sending Human Colonists To Mars We Need To Carefully Study A Little-Known Film

Thanks too Netflix I got to see this jewel of a little known film. It's about three groups of people who decided to forsake normal civilized life and got to live on the island of Floreana in the Galapagos Islands. Some were highly-trained professionals. The story did not have a happy ending. One couple,most likely, was murdered. The probable killers died later in a boating mishap between islands. A German medical doctor who settled there died of either accidental or intentional poisoning. Ironically some other people survived and built a life there.

For all of those in NASA and in private companies with a goal of colonizing Mars, this film is a "must see." It shows some of the pit falls of sending humans far away to a hostile environment. I am a firm advocate of sending humans to live on Mars. This film made me think. We must plan such endeavors with the greatest care.

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013)Directed by Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine. With Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger. About a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.SaveIMDB.COM
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