splodgeyAl Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 They say our planet is getting overpopulated and polluted would it be possible that now or in the future we mite have to live on another planet, if so witch planet would be most likely to support human life. They've been saying that since the 18th century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 We haven't even seriously started to plan putting man on our nearest planet, let alone our nearest hospitable planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splodgeyAl Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 It's possible in theory that we could colonise another planet, but it depends on a few things, actually locating one that is suitable, we haven't done that yet. And engineering a way to get there, we aren't even close to developing the technology to get us to another solar system, not even one that is close by.Between those two, we also need to deal with the muscle wastage that space travel causes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Between those two, we also need to deal with the muscle wastage that space travel causes That might end up being a negligible problem. Any ship large enough to send out a colonising group, would probably be so large that you could generate artificial gravity by spinning it on its axis. How you block out cosmic rays to prevent the colonists all being fried to death, I don't know. Laboratory-strength magnetic fields? Or would those disrupt any machinery inside the ship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthenekred Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Mars but it would need terraforming first. Cheaper to clean up our own planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavegirl Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 That might end up being a negligible problem. Any ship large enough to send out a colonising group, would probably be so large that you could generate artificial gravity by spinning it on its axis. How you block out cosmic rays to prevent the colonists all being fried to death, I don't know. Laboratory-strength magnetic fields? Or would those disrupt any machinery inside the ship? Perhaps you're thinking about it in the wrong way? We could send a much smaller unmanned craft to a hospitable planet which sets up a teleporting reconstruction machine linked back to one on Earth and just beam ourselves across space as individual atoms- I'm thinking more Stargate than Star Trek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Perhaps you're thinking about it in the wrong way? We could send a much smaller unmanned craft to a hospitable planet which sets up a teleporting reconstruction machine linked back to one on Earth and just beam ourselves across space as individual atoms- I'm thinking more Stargate than Star Trek. Fair point. I'm thinking about existing technology and slightly more advanced. If teleportation ever becomes possible, we can do just about anything. So far as I know, existing knowledge of quantum mechanics implies that it never will be; but "existing knowledge" has turned out to be drastically wrong in saying that things would never be possible, quite often in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Cheaper to clean up our own planet. I think it’s more to do with the size of ours not being big enough for potentially future population. Terraforming wouldn’t be the expensive part; it’s the getting there and back that needs making cheaper and faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I think it’s more to do with the size of ours not being big enough for potentially future population. You could quite reasonably argue that it's not big enough for current population, given the amount of damage we're causing to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Fair point. I'm thinking about existing technology and slightly more advanced. If teleportation ever becomes possible, we can do just about anything. So far as I know, existing knowledge of quantum mechanics implies that it never will be; but "existing knowledge" has turned out to be drastically wrong in saying that things would never be possible, quite often in the past. Apparently Scientists successfully teleported an atoms in 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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