Do you think terraforming planets and moons could be Possible?

Question

IF you have seen Sci-FI movies you have probably heard of Terraforming right? well not now but in the next 2 centuries you think Humans will be able grow plants and raise animals on Planets like mars and our own moon?

Answer 1

Theoritically, it's possible to do terraforming on a planet. Venus, Mars, and Europe (moon of Jupiter) are good candidates to be terraformed. Sorry, but Moon (Earth's moon) isn't a good candidate.

Actually, there are already several throughout studies on terraforming.

The principal reason given to pursue terraforming is the creation of an ecology to support worlds suitable for habitation by humans. However, some researchers believe that space habitats will provide a more economical means for supporting space colonization.

Theoretical methods of terraforming :
-Building the atmosphere
-Converting atmosphere
-Removing atmosphere
-Paraterraforming
-Cloud-top colonization
-Adding heat
-Removing heat
-Building a shield against radiation
-Planet rotation speed

Further stages of Terraforming
Once conditions become more suitable to life from Earth, the importation of microbial life could begin. As conditions approach that of Earth, plant life could also be brought in. This would accelerate the production of oxygen, which theoretically would make the planet eventually able to support animal and human life.

So yes, it's possible enough to do a terraforming, although our current technology isn't suffice to do that. But if there's a breakthrough in nanotechnology and advanced chemical, may be in centuries (not millenias), human will be able to terraform a planet.

Answer 2

The Solar System is 4.5 billion years old, the universe close to 15 billion. If life has blossomed on every planet in the right orbit around its star, then you face the possibility that there are civilisations a billion years more advanced than us - imaging what we have achieved in last 200 years, and then think what would be achieved in 1 billion hence?

Therefore, if life is ubiquitous througout the universe, there is the possibility that some advanced race terraformed Earth.

They would appear so advanced to us that they would seem like Gods, just as we would appear like Gods if we could take our technology back in time and show cavemen.

Terraforming? I would guess we are couple centuries away at least. First we have to sort out the world's problems, because while we have such a division between rich and poor, there is not enough resources left to put into developments on the scale of ventures into deep space.

That is why humans have not been back to the moon or further. Money!

Answer 3

I think terraforming is only possible on worlds where conditions are hospitable to life. In those cases, I would be surprised if there is no life of any kind there already. Say you have a warm planet with abundant sunshine and CO2 in the atmosphere. It might be possible to seed such a world with plants from Earth. Over time, perhaps centuries, oxygen would build up in the atmosphere to the point where you could introduce oxygen-breathing species.

Answer 4

Not with our technology. Only Mars would even come close enough to retaining a livable atmosphere enough to think about. There are so many criteria a planet has to meet before it can be terraformed it will be hard to accomplish. The right mass, spin, has to be able to retain an atmosphere and not have the solar wind destroy it with its radiation, etc. Will the gases be irradiated before we can get enough green house gases in the atmosephere?

Right now there not even sure that long term space flight to mars is a reality because of solar radiation. They're having to rethink the whole way to protect the astronauts and shield them. Our protection comes from magnetism which we largely ignore.

Answer 5

Yes. People say that humans will send huge mirrors in orbit around Mars and melt the ice. It is said that there is enough water ice to cover all of Mars with water. We would have to make some of the water turn into steam and convert the carbon dioxide into water. We would redo these step every few thousand years.

You probably can't teraform the Moon since it doesn't have any water or ice and it barely has an atmosphere.

Answer 6

Maybe. Six hundred years ago, did British people ever dream of colonizing another continent.

At one time wasn't it thought that the world was flat...

Who would have thought in 1900 that people would be trading stocks on the internet or watching the World Cup on Google Video?

Research and technological innovation takes time, many discoveries once thought impossible may very well become reality in the future. But discoveries take time, it may take more than two centuries for the appropriate technology to develop.

Answer 7

The trick, as usual, is getting the bacteria to cooperate. The viruses are so anti-terraform by nature, our best bet is the bacteria. Trust me on this one, lots of oxygen-producing bacteria. It's the only way.

Answer 8

Yes, if we develop certain key technologies such as a way to control climate and finding ways to mass produce life-sustaining gases (air and greenhouse gases), finding good water sources, or having the expertise to fuse large amounts of hydrogen and oxygen to produce potable water (like in fuel cells).

Answer 9

There are plans to accomplish the roots of tera-forming in the next 50 years, it's all just a matter of time.

Answer 10

de moon i dont tink so...but in mars which has co2 in itz atmosphere and a lot more gravity i tink it is possible (only to grow plants of course ...animals wouldnt survive unless de plants produce enough oxygen to sustain dem)