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- Oct 2024
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The only advance is that of the vehicle itself, Mars thus being only an Earth of dreams, endowed with perfect wings as in any dream of idealization. Most likely if we were to disembark in our turn on the Mars we have designed, we should find there merely Earth itself, and between these two products of the same history we should be unable to determine which is our own
To me, I understand this as how the expectations we set can differ rom the cruel reality of things. The passage basically says that we see Mars as a perfect version of Earth which is healed by our dreams. However, if we were to actually go there somehow we would realize it’s more similar to Earth then our dreams imagined
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