What are the chances that the human race will have a space settlement in the next 50 years?

Answer 1

Very high. NASA is planning to have a moon base with tractor beams to protect Earth from asteroids.

Answer 2

With the way NASA and other countries are going i would say that the chances of a space settlement in the next 50 years is very slim. NASA has trouble sending the shuttle into space so im sure it would take them longer then 50 years to figure out how to establish a settlement in space. The only hope for that to happen is if the private sector of the space race incresses 10fold. So far the only real hope is the owner of Virgin Music in the Private sector, he might be able to pull a settlemant off one day. He is crazy enough to do it!

Answer 3

Considering my grandmother is 93 yrs old. And she was riding a buck board wagon for transportation. She's seen the invention of Radio, TV, Cell phones,computers etc... A man go to the moon, and now humans living in space. I'd say 50yrs would be a easy time span to have humans living on the moon or somewhere else.
My 4 yr old has no concept of not having a computer or a rotary phone. " she's pretty good with a computer "

Answer 4

Virtually zero. Also, the chances of a manned trip to Mars are very slim. The problem is cosmic radiation, which is intense and ceaseless beyond Earth's thin atmospheric envelope and it's magnetic field, which shields landlubbers from most of that radiation. Were Earth ever to lose that magnetic field, humanity would cease to exist in a very short time - we'd all die of radiation poisoning. Certainly we can send crews of astronauts to the International Space Station for months at a time, but they don't stay there indefinately. They are, while there, exposed to quite a bit of cosmic radiation, which simply isn't healthy for living beings like us.

Answer 5

Perhaps a moon settlement (I would also count the space station as a settlement). But I doubt we'll see much more than that unless things change drastically in the way we look at science.

Answer 6

100%, if you count the International Space Station as a space settlement.

I'm assuming you don't, so I'd say the chances are very high. 50 years is a very long time, especially in these times. I'd go as far as to say that one will go up if humanity doesn't do something stupid like mostly annihilate itself.

Answer 7

Certainly better than ever before in human history, but maybe just a tad bit early. We've got too many pressing issues calling for the resources, but chances will be tremendously better in the second half of the century when the crescendo of technology will essentially demand it.

Answer 8

0%

I think we may have a base on the moon where research is conducted, but my idea of a "settlement" is a place where people live permanently, and aren't there because its part of your job, or because there presence is required to sustain the very existence of the base.

Answer 9

very very remote.