Mars Conference 28.06.2021

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# Presentation
 
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HAPPINESS ON MARS
 
 Federico Monaco, MarsPlanet, Italy 
Carlo Ivaldi, Mars Society Netherlands

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# Introduction
 
 
 
<h4>Might happiness on Mars be gained in the same way as on Earth? 
 Here is an insight about a research on the "pursuit of happiness" on Mars
 according to different cultural perspectives on human conditions,
 habitats, identities, cultures, social representations and objects. 
The pursuit of happiness is at the basis of the foundation of modern
 Constitutions as the right to live in conditions worth for a living as
 modern humans. In the case of a martian colony what might be transferred
 from Earth as rights, duties and values given individual, social, cultural and psychological requirements? 
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# GOALS

<h4>• To sketch a primer insight about martian happy practices and habitats
based and compared with earthling examples of best practices and happiness studies
 with a list of features to be included in the design of the habitat.
 
 • This conceptual exploration engages with those
 social environments that represent virtuous and
 non virtuous cases of happy communities on Earth. 
 As result we like to discuss some of the features
 about emotional/social/cultural
 conditions in such extreme environment.</h4> 
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# FIRST PHASE: THE JOURNEY TO MARS
 
 Lebedev’s case - a cosmonaut's diary:
 

![](https://github.com/happinessonmars/happinessonmars.github.io/blob/master/img/happy+surprise.png?raw=true)
 
Exo-surprise and adjustment

 
![](https://github.com/happinessonmars/happinessonmars.github.io/blob/master/img/realization+sadness.png?raw=true) 
 
Increasing fatigue and decreasing motivation

 
but finally....

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 This worsens. 

 

 <img src="https://media.dayoftheshirt.com/images/shirts/hRfbp/redbubble_no-hope-sign-vote-marvin-paranoid-android-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-t-shirt-redbubble_1606921071.large.png" width="200" height="250" alt="galaxy hitchikers">

 
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# SECOND PHASE: SMALL GROUP SETTLEMENTS
 
 Three main cases: 
 
 🚀 Biosphere 2.0 🚀 Mars 500 🚀 HI-SEAS
 
 
 ![](https://github.com/happinessonmars/happinessonmars.github.io/blob/master/img/biomarshiseas.png?raw=true)

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 😪 **Stress factors:** 
 
✖️ food limitations ✖️ workload ✖️ us and them syndrome ✖️ cabin fever
 
 
 😊 **Allevietor factors:** 
 
✔️ historic importance ✔️ having a private space ✔️ social activities ✔️ feeling part of a larger whole

![](https://github.com/happinessonmars/happinessonmars.github.io/blob/master/img/alleviators2.png?raw=true)
  
  
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# THIRD PHASE: BUILDING A HAPPY SOCIETY
 
 **Nordic exceptionalism** 
 
Three key points:
 
🚚 Democratic and delivery quality ↔️ Social and horizontal trust 🆓 Freedom to make life choices 

 
![](https://github.com/happinessonmars/happinessonmars.github.io/blob/master/img/habitat.png?raw=true) 
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/greenlandtravel/15274129241
 
 
 
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“*The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.*” 
(Thomas Jefferson, 1809)
 
 
 
![](https://github.com/happinessonmars/happinessonmars.github.io/blob/master/img/happynordicman.png?raw=true)
 
 
 ❄️ Despite the weather! ❄️ 
 
Check the World Happiness Report:
 https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2020/

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# THE DUTCH MODEL OF HAPPINESS

Water
• Greenhouse
• Mobility
• Small spaces
• Sharing
   
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# WHAT IF...SF and fiction depicting and representing happiness
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Is happiness an individual or a social condition? (the ball in Castaway movie)

Happiness and identity (e.g.:the Martian planting potatoes scene)

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# ANTHROPOLOGY OF HAPPINESS (IN SPACE)

"Among the core elements of the frontier myth was the powerful sense among
certain groups of Americans that wilderness was the last bastion of rugged individualism. 
 Turner tended to stress communitarian themes when writing frontier history,
asserting that Americans in primitive conditions had been forced to band together
with their neighbors to form communities and democratic institutions" 
 <center>(Cronon,1996)

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# ETHICS AND HAPPINESS
 
☺ Should happiness be a human right on Mars? 
☺ Only a martian could be happy on Mars (Witgenstein) 
☺ Only martian natives might practice and culturally decode something as happiness 
☺ Social contract in harsh conditions 
☺ What factors and conditions make humans happy 
☺ Happy society on Mars: is it going to be written in a martian Constitution? 
☺ Would a matriarchal leadership on Mars lead to more happiness? 
☺ Happiness as social justice matter 
☺ Happiness and individual freedom in harsh conditions where collective survival is at risk

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# HAPPINESS AND/BY BIOLOGY

• Light 
• Food 
• Reproduction 
• Adaptation 
• Moving 
• Social environment 
• Values 
• Happiness by pills to increase dopamine levels

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# TOWARDS AN ENGINEERING OF HAPPINESS?
 What might be the factors that could affect and foster happiness on Mars? 
• Small community 
• Sustainability 
• Nature 
• Privacy 
• Altruism 
• Food 
• Faith 
• Leisure time 
• Parties and gatherings 
.... 
• Sex

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 # HAPPY ENDING? 
 
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 don't forget to visit 
 https://happinessonmars.github.io/

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# References 
• Bubeev, Y., Gushin, V., Vinokhodova, A., Shved, D. (2014). Main findings of psychophysiological studies in the Mars 500 experiment. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 84(2):106-114
 
• Cronon, W. (1996). "The Trouble with Wilderness, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature," Environmental History, January, pp.7-55
 
• Hallberg, M. & Kullenberg, C. (2019). Happiness Studies. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies. 7. 42-50. 10.5324/njsts.v7i1.2530.
 
• Battaglia, D. (2012). Coming in at an Unusual Angle: Exo-Surprise and the Fieldworking Cosmonaut. Anthropological Quarterly 85 (4), 1089-1106.
 
• Nelson, M., Gray, K., Allen, J.P. (2015). Group dynamics challenges: Insights from Biosphere2 experiments. Life Sciences in Space Research 6, 79–86. 
 
• Hauplik-Meusburger, S., Binsted, K., Bassinghtwaighte, T. (2017). Habitability Studies and Full Scale Simulation Research: Preliminary themes following HISEAS mission IV. 47th International Conference on Environmental Systems. 
 
• Moroz, A. (2021). Finnish Happiness. Regression analysis https://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/603171_816785bc70ec4c108882ba70d23d294f.html
 
• https://www.happiness.com/magazine/inspiration-spirituality/living-on-a-houseboat-life/ 
 
• (2020). World Happiness Report https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2020/
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