Is it worth trying to land on other planets?

Answer 1

Yes, of course!!! It's the future of civilization as we know it.

Answer 2

Hi,

People like to discover new things and explore. It is common to humans so that is why they care about the rest and don't just play around all day with video games...

They landed on Mars for ex, to be able to explore and grew the knowledge of the universe... More knowledge - less problems.

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Answer 3

Yes! We must not disregard our sense of discovery to unravel some mystery in our existence and everything around us. The knowlege that we will derive from space travel is unlimited. Although it is expensive, it is wothwhile to gain more information that could be of use to us in the future.

Answer 4

Yeahhhhhhh!!!!! Let's do it, as soon as possible. Even planets with no life, like Mars, have resources we can use, and possibly even living space. They say Venus is a lady too hot to handle, but I've got my eyes on her, too.

But the asteroids might be our biggest boon, with entrepreneur-backed mining operations providing materials for space stations and deep space ships; and don't forget the moon, which, rich in silicon and aluminum and lacking oxygen, would be an ideal place to manufacture perfect aluminum and glass, not to mention great solar panels for apartment buildings on the earth.

The moon would be an energy bonanza. Besides the silicon and aluminum industries, huge plains could be reserved for placing solar collector mirrors capturing solar energy that could be sent via microwave back to earth, providing us cheap energy without petroleum and coal, thus limiting environmental damage, though massive beaming of microwave energy back to earth would play Hobbs with TV reception! A minor problem, correctible by switching from air waves to fiber optics. Thinking of acres of tall, home-grown aluminum and glass dome-cities on the moon, powered by solar energy, makes my mouth water. Put it to use! Make it work for us!

(Until terraforming is complete, Mars' economic value to the earth would probably lie in automated iron mining and steel making, and the manufacture of steel components for space stations and other space craft. It would serve as a space port for going farther out, as the gravity is not as strong and the escape velocity much lower as compared with earth. It could be the center of a mining industry spreading across the asteroids, which are rich in iron and might have industrial-grade diamonds. The terraforming industry would eventually support an in situ human colony that would grow as terraforming got underway. Most space industry would probably be automated at first.

Even Venus could be put to use! She's perched up there, doing nothing but being the morning and evening star, way too long. If enough meteoric slag could be put around it to equal the gravitational pull of the moon, then LeGrange points could be created so that orbiting satellites, in torus or cylindric shape, could be put in stable orbits. What would they do? Perhaps control a large array of solar mirrors around Venus, designed mainly to send more solar energy back to earth, but, as a by-product, deflecting sunlight. If Venus were shielded substantially from sunlight, the vise-grip of the greenhouse effect might be loosened, and the terraforming of Venus begin. Or we could perhaps use the planet in ways not yet visualized.

The deep space ships manufactured as an outgrowth of our industry on the Moon, Mars, and the asteroids could become comfortable living habitats orbiting the sun, and later, as this technology develops, venture further out in the void, perhaps arriving at Alpha Centauri (and its possible planets?) a few hundred years hence.

The argument for space is the unlimited resources and SPACE out there! We have to go get it! "Be a go-getter," my father used to say. "Go-getters are survivors."

I don't use the word "fool" often to characterize people who disagree with me. But not taking the step to space would be folly of the first order.

Answer 5

Not doing it and expanding our presence in other worlds will inevitably cause the human race to vanish

Answer 6

Most definitely

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

Yes. It's a human thing....

Answer 10

of course