Ridley Scot<\/a>t<\/span><\/strong> was the humanity behind it. Like the ordinary things that must be done in order to survive the harshest of climates millions of miles away from home. And how resourceful man is, and how much we will need to rely on science and math in order to make it through another day.<\/p>\nThough I probably won’t live to see a man on Mars, given this story, it seems entirely possible that a visit to Mars is not outside the realm of probability. How far man will go is anybody’s guess.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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For all the talk about a visit to Mars, there is nothing like a film to give you some idea of what that experience might be like.<\/p>\n![\"MV5BMTc2MTQ3MDA1Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODA3OTI4NjE@._V1_SY317_CR0,0,214,317_AL_\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dianastevan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MV5BMTc2MTQ3MDA1Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODA3OTI4NjE%40._V1_SY317_CR00214317_AL_-203x300.jpg?resize=255%2C377\")
<\/a>behind on a mission to Mars. What happens after that is both astonishing and scary. There were moments in the film when I found myself gripping my husband’s thigh wondering what was going to happen next. I haven’t felt that tense in a film in a long time.<\/p>\n