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Il y a des comportements d'adolescent qui perdurent bien après l'âge parait-il légal, ou du moins attendu. Celui de brailler chanter avec un casque sur les oreilles peut en faire partie…Dans ma discothèque, un titre tient le haut du pavé pour avoir été chanté à tue-tête et en canon lors d'une simulation de colonisation martienne dans la Mars Desert Research Station de la Mars Society : il s'agit du Case for Mars, qui fait partie de la Symphony of Science, une démarche de vulgarisation scientifique que je vous recommande tant pour entraîner votre anglais que pour découvrir les sciences sous un nouveau jour.En voici le clip - et plus bas les paroles - pour que, vous aussi, vous vous essayiez à la chansonnette.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ5sWfhkpE0&#38;feature=youtu.beThe Case for Mars[Robert Zubrin]Mars is the next logical stepIn our space programIt's the challenge that's been staring us in the faceFor the past 30 yearsIt has water, it has carbon,It has a 24 hour dayIt has geothermal energyMars is a place we can settle [Carl Sagan]There is a giant rift in its surface5,000 kilometers longThere is a volcano as wide as Arizona [Zubrin]So there's the choice in lifeOne either grows or one decaysGrow or dieI think we should grow [Sagan]Mars is a world of wonders [Brian Cox]It has canyons, river valleys,and giant ice sheets [Sagan]Mars is a world of wonders[Zubrin]It shouldn't be humans to Mars in 50 yearsIt should be humans to Mars in 10We either muster the courage to goOr we risk the possibility of stagnation and decayWe've got cosmic radiationZero gravityMartian dust stormsBack contaminationBut these are dragons that we can take on [Sagan]In our time we have siftedThe sands of MarsEstablished a presence thereAnd fulfilled a century of dreams [Cox]The Mars rovers have reallyCaptured our imaginationsThey genuinely are explorersIn the old-fashioned sense [Zubrin]If you put out a callFor volunteers for the first crew to MarsThey'd be lined up coast to coast (refrain) [Cox]Mars is a dry frozen version of our homeCovered in red dust and sand [Penelope Boston]At one timeIn the ancient pastMars was very similarTo the conditions of early earth [Zubrin]There will always be people with new ideasOn how humans should live together [Cox]We now have "eyes" and "ears" on the surface [Zubrin]What's left after you go isThe good you've left behindYou have to believe in hopeYou have to believe in the futureThere are more and more people coming around to the point of view thatA positive future for humanity requires human expansion to space (refrain)We're at a crossroads todayWe either muster the courage to goOr we risk the possibility of stagnation and decay