[ WP ] Mars is populated by clones of those on Earth .

I looked out beyond my large bedroom window and saw the blues and greens and oranges on earths surface and I wondered what it was like to swim in an ocean or hike through a desert or lay in a field of soft short grass. After several moments I turned away and went back to work desk and looked over my research papers. I was on an 18 month contract working for TerraTiw doing research on the discovered minerals of Mars used for green energy back on earth. I was n't disillusioned about my work but my heart was not in in nearly as much as it was when I began. My mind often drifted to thoughts of earth and what it must be like to live there and to be truly free to roam and do you please. To walk a street or a trail in just plain clothes and no space suit. To eat fresh foods and drink non recycled water. To taste and smell and be with earth's oxygen. I liked many of the people here. We were sent to serve a purpose and we have done our best to find ways to maximize colonization for humans on planets in our solar system and beyond. I do not believe I am the only one who misses a home we have never been to but none of us truly show our feelings about it more than is acceptable without putting our mission in danger through low moral and mutiny. Hundreds of us lonely in space trying to create a new home for our people. But I miss home. 
 
 I was standing on my deck and looking into the night sky and I took in all the stars and constellations and satellites and saw the faint signalling of Mars. I stepped up to my telescope to get a closer look and there I saw it in all it's glory. The future of mankind was on that red planet and I was never going to see it. I had been contracted by TerraTiw for 18 months to help with the testing on gravity stabilizers in zero and low gravity environments to be used on Mars and space in the future. I wo n't pretend to understand it, I just write the coding for the software which runs the tests. I understand what I'm doing has it's ultimate purpose. It's already too late to save earth but we are looking for ways to stabilize the atmosphere in order to give us enough time to develop the technology and ships to mass transport the people here to Mars and beyond. I feel honored to do this job but it is not where my heart lies. I belong in the stars. I often fantasize and dream of what it would be like to take a proverbial moon walk, to jump from rock to rock in low gravity. To see earth with my own eyes a million miles away. To be a pioneer for the human species. Conquistador of planets and space rocks in the name of peace and prosperity. I took my eyes away from the night sky and studied the forest that was at the back of my property. Nobody, nothing there. I went back inside to look at my work. 
 
 I stare at you, longing to be with you, and I know this will never happen. I will perform duty to humanity so that future generations may experience what I only may dream of.
