Saturday, January 24, 2004

Now we are 6,344,153,755 living on Earth …Confirmed: water found in Mars…

As we reach more than 6 billion souls on Earth according to projections of the US Census Bureau thoughts about how to deal with overpopulation come to our heads. In 1750 Johann Peter SuBmilch estimated that Earth could feed up to 10 billion people, later Malthus’s prophecies on population and food supply sent a relevant message to make us look for new ways to change this fate. SuBmilch and Malthus never imagined how biotechnology and genetic engineered crops could help, nonetheless, even with the extensive application of these technologies the problem will still be here, as economic growth, geographic distribution of the population, age and productivity, access to resources, and many other issues are part of the equation.

Could it be possible that the solution is not here on Earth?. Mankind has always wanted to reach the stars. This old romantic idea is hopefully to become part of the solution in the years to come, now that the Mars Express mission from the European Space Agency has confirmed the existence of ice water in Mars. This image contains three
views
, from right to left of one region in the southern polar cap: ice (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and visible light.

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