A strange place without human habitats

There is no denying the fact that a place without people is very much intricate to speculate and to find out such place devoid of human habitats. It seems to be absurd to discover a place where there is no hue and cry of humans. We can discover such places like desert, hilly area and the islands in the middle of the deep sea where there is rare chance of getting humans living with one another. We can describe them as a top mountain, diving in the sea beds, digging the way through mines and caves, stomping pig-hotheadedly through snow covered landscape and in the middle of barren arctic regions where the people find life-threatening difficulty to survive upon such unusual and unethical neighborhoods.

In accordance with the theory and concept of Robert H. Haynes, York University, Toronto, Canada, the people  in Mars can live in uncongenial places in two divergent ways, one is by altering the local environment, or by carrying an appropriate ‘environment’ with them. Desert irrigation for agricultural development is an example of the first, while the life-support systems of cosmological landing modules, or circumnavigating space stations, epitomize the second approach of endurance. The concluding devices cannot be populated indefinitely; for lengthy stays the crews sooner or later become dependent on resupply missions from Earth. Recently, the President of the United States called for the establishment of bases for astronauts on the moon and Mars. The first human outposts in space will, of necessity, be of the second kind, even though some local resources may be exploited by their occupants. Human settlements on other planets can become fully and permanently independent of Earth only of these distant environments are transformed to provide Earth-like living conditions and a local agriculture.

Despite so many places where people are struggling and researching to explore place for the survival of humans. Specifically, the NASA scientists are day and night trying to find out places on the planets and the satellites.  Nowadays, the people are thinking and expecting to live on the moon and the MARS because of postulates from the end of the scientists are predicted every time. In this civilized world. The abyss may be of such instance where the people can think to live there with required chastity and wealth whatever little is needed for the services of humans. The abyss is the deepest and most unexplored part of the Earth’s seas and oceans. It is where no sunlight ever penetrates, no sounds are heard and no human thoughts are floating about. For this reason, survival for humans is never possible in such place without people.

The world is full of mystery where there is ragged mountains and uneven land, even in some places there exists  perils of life, In some are, life seems to be hazardous to survive on earth because, human efforts are continuous flow so far the land needs to be beautified and smooth. The paddy field is unsuitable for humans to survive and similarly, in the woodland, humans can build their castles to live with society, friendship and love. In the Mars, the scientists all over the world has been striving to find out ways to the survival of humans and according to the research work carried out by NASA scientists, Mars might be the habitats where the necessary elements are available. It is a surprising note to ponder over that this planet is as like as the earth where the necessary growth and the developments of the environment are possible to be explored.

However, in an amazing bio-tic diaspora, microorganisms, followed by plants and animals, migrated from marine to fresh water environments and then onto the initially barren land. None of this would have been possible were it not for the evolutionary development, by living cells, of the ‘technology’ of photosynthesis. Essentially all of the free oxygen (and the resulting ozone shield) in Earth’s atmosphere was, and is, generated by photosynthesis. Even though oxygen is poisonous to most anaerobic organisms, its accumulation in the atmosphere created the conditions necessary for the flowering of aerobic life as we know it today.

Life is a terrestrial marvel, but the earth is the only alive planet in the solar system. Plants and animals are communally reliant on products of Earth’s global ecosystem – the biosphere. All are intricately coupled with each other, and with land, oceans and air by the recycling of water, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and other inorganic materials needed to maintain life. Humans also are component parts of this complex, ever-changing but to some extent self-regulating, biochemical system. We are exotic products of a planetary engine originally set in motion, and continuously fueled, by energy from the sun. On other planets, high and low extremes of atmospheric temperatures and pressures, lack of free oxygen and liquid water, high concentrations of toxic gases, and deadly radiation levels variously preclude the existence of life. Though presently barren, Mars, nonetheless, is a bio-compatible planet. Its unalterable physical characteristics (e.g. size, density, gravity, orbit, rotation rate, incident sunlight) and its possible chemical resources are remarkably consistent with life. Indeed, it was the hope that organisms might be found on Mars that made life-detection the top priority for NASA’s Viking missions in 1976. However, all of the ingenious biological experiments carried out by the two robotic lander gave negative results.

The Viking data did divulge that the ecological surroundings on Mars are more severe than ever had been illusory. At the two ‘temperate zone’ landing sites, local temperatures unveiled wide daily disparity averaging 60 degrees below zero Celsius. The atmospheric pressure was found to be very low, just over six millibars, which is less than one hundredth of that at Earth’s surface. This thin atmosphere consists of 95% carbon dioxide and 3% nitrogen, with only trace amounts of water vapour, oxygen and other gases. There is no protective ozone layer to shield the planet from the ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun. Most astounding was the nonappearance from the soil of any demonstrable carbon-based molecules, the building blocks of life. Even though such materials arrive on Mars in meteorites, they are subsequently destroyed, at least on the surface of the planet. Thus, any organisms which might arrive there unprotected today would be freeze-dried, chemically degraded, and soon reduced to dust. It would not be thinkable to ‘seed’ Mars just by sprinkling bacteria over its surface.

Notwithstanding its presently hostile environment, Mars did once possess a great northern ocean and substantial quantities of flowing water, together with a thick, mostly carbon dioxide, atmosphere. These conditions may have persisted long enough for early stages of chemical and cellular evolution to have occurred. It is largely for these reasons that some scientists have begun to consider whether Mars might ultimately be returned, by human intervention, to a habitable state. A major uncertainty in these discussions is whether there remains on Mars today adequate amounts of carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen to allow such a planetary-scale transformation. If most of Mars’ original endowment of these materials has been lost to space, then the regeneration of a habitable state would be impossible.

Preliminary studies have shown that if the surface crust and polar caps of Mars still possess sufficient and accessible quantities of carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen, and if acceptable planetary engineering techniques can be devised to initiate planetary warming and release these volatile materials from their geological reservoirs, then Mars could support a stable and much thicker carbon dioxide/nitrogen atmosphere than it does at present.

This atmosphere would be warm and moist, and water would flow again in the dried up river beds. The average temperature at the surface would rise to about 15 degrees Celsius and the atmospheric pressure would be roughly twice that on Earth. Appropriately selected, or genetically engineered, anaerobic microorganisms, and eventually some plants, could grow under these conditions. If future exploration reveals that the necessary volatile are indeed available then a new home for life might someday be created on our sister planet. The creation of a self-sustaining ecosystem, or biosphere, on a lifeless planet is called ecopoiesis, a new word which means ‘the making of an abode for life’. On Mars, as was the case on Earth, the earliest biosphere would most likely have to consist of localized microbial ecosystems growing and developing under anaerobic conditions. It is hopped in future that humans may start living there as the space of the earth would have been reduced in course of time, deterioration and cumbersome motion of the factors controlling the surface of the landscape in question.

Obviously, this would not provide an environment in which animals or humans could survive outdoors. All oxygen-dependent organisms transported to Mars would have to remain enclosed in life-support modules or appropriate protective gear. The word ‘terra formation’ is used to describe the formation of specifically Earth-like, aerobic conditions on planets. Such a salubrious environment is only one of many possible long-term and not necessarily inevitable, outcomes of ecopoiesis. If we consider the spontaneous development of Earth’s biosphere as a model for what might be achieved by design on Mars, terra formation would have to be initiated subsequently to ecopoiesis. If we restrict our speculations to plausible, near-term technologies, the time periods required to carry out ecopoiesis and terra formation on Mars are very different. If suitable volatile inventories exist, the thick, warm atmosphere described above might be generated in as little as 200 years. However as per statistics approximately 100,000 years would be required if an oxygen atmosphere was to be produced as efficiently as it was on Earth, that is, by microbial and green plant photosynthesis. However, it remains possible that presently unimagined, futuristic technologies could be developed to shorten these time estimates considerably. For many people, including some leading scientists, talk of humanly initiated ecopoiesis and terra formation sounds more like science fiction than any justifiable program in space research. The obstacles posed by present conditions on Mars, quite apart from the costs entailed, seem almost insurmountable. In addition, the prospect of ecopoiesis, as a long-range objective for civilian space agencies, raises many unresolved philosophical, political and even legal questions. For instance, do humans have any right to ‘play God’ on another planet?
Migration and the colonization of initially in hospitable environments has been one of the most astonishing historical features of biological evolution. The first living cells were formed at least 3.8 billion years ago, presumably in the darker reaches of the primeval, anaerobic seas. At that time much of Earth’s surface environment, and certainly its land areas, would have been extremely hostile, if not downright lethal, to most of the organisms which flourish here today.

Conceivably though, there are also subterranean psychological and biological explanations for seeking to brighten Mars: such a vast innovativeness would unquestionably be trustworthy with the Promethean myths of many cultural traditions and the proliferative imperative that stimulates life itself. The slow, chancy processes of genetic variation, natural selection and species diversification have made possible the dispersal of nonhuman life across the globe. In contrast the migration and dispersal of Homo sapiens has not entailed any significant biological progression, and certainly no speciation, ever since the emergence of ‘modern’ humans with linguistic and tool making capabilities about 100,000 years ago. Rather, it has been the amazingly rapid and efficient processes of social and technological evolution which have facilitated the propagation of our species, across every continent, and most recently into space .In 1969 astronauts first set foot on the moon. If all goes well, others are scheduled to arrive on Mars in 2019. Against this background it is not just an indolent delusion to imagine that people might yet “slip the surly bonds of Earth” to pioneer new habitats in the sky. Further exploration of Mars may well reveal that ecopoiesis is realistic on that planet. Such a discovery would provide future generations with an incredible task in life and a white-knuckle vision of the role of civilization as a participant in formation of a new landscape in the Mars tentatively.

Before finishing let me speak out a story bedded on 'Aplace without people'

It was dark. The landscape of the moor seemed like an ancient burial ground. Nothing stirred in this forsaken place. The place was interesting itself. A forest resided on the other side of the dry moor. The sentinel woods cast horrific shrouds on the ground. There was no wind to rock the branches of the trees. The place possessed a peculiar silence. Animals seemed to have longed disappeared.  The full moon only seemed to illuminate the forest to make any passerby become petrified of the thought of entering it. But was the forest completely soulless? People didn’t wander into the forest because of its frightening demeanor. But the forest was actually a harmless and so were its visible and invisible residents. The forest was not the home of angry spirits or the undead contrary to people’s preconceptions. It was the home of small animals- squirrels, rabbits, insects, birds and of course -fairies and pixies. For centuries they have lived in the forest in peace and tranquility. No humans ever to disturb them. They themselves did not like the external appearance of the forest, but they knew that their harmony would cease to exist if humans found out of their inheritance. So by magic and spells an almost demonic forest would appear to human eyes beside the moor. Deep inside the forest was fairy tale fantasies come true. At this hour frogs croaked and nocturnal insects jumped to find food. The leaves of the trees seemed to whistle almost inaudibly. Small animals like rabbits and squirrels had gone into their burrows; still their ears would twitch at the slightest sound. Nature was taking its inevitable course. Even the birds that lived here in the deep forest chirped no more, they sat in their nests, eyes closed; sleeping.  Still at this hour, the pixies and fairies still played in the full moonlit night.  They skated over the lake and the quiet ones hung on the branches of the trees watching the commotion.  They created small floating orbs of light almost like miniature moons to see the lake. They would hold their hands together and dance in circle just like human children. It was a mesmerizing magical moment, but human eyes could never be allowed to see it. Nevertheless all the inhabitants of the forest are afraid of people. They know that some may burn down the forest-for only material wealth. Also some may even try to capture them, if they come to know of their existence. But for the time being, their habitation is unknown to people. They live in a world of their own- a place without people. Their world probably never had contact with humans, they lived on their own; beside nature. And they are so thankful that their magic creates such illusions to keep away trespassers.