2006-07-11 09:20:46 · 11 answers · asked by caliboy80 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Far away.
I believe some rich guy is trying to build a skyscraper that floats on the ocean.
2006-07-12 09:41:40 · answer #1 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have to say that we are no where close because there are people living on earth who barely survive each day.
Also we should't even think about that because each day the environment is being degraded. And the constant fighting between countries FOR WHAT.... I DO NOT KNOW.
Earth is already in a messed up position.I dont' think we should intrerfere with the rest of the Universe before we control what is going here first.
2006-07-11 17:07:28 · answer #2 · answered by Dion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have the technology to live on the Moon (or Mars) today, in fact we have had that technology for about 15-20 years. The problem is funding. It would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to attempt it. Maybe when the cost comes down (and most of the cost would be involved in space shuttle or rocket launches) it would happen. We need to find a cheaper way to leave the Earth's gravity.
2006-07-11 16:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by cognitively_dislocated 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd wager between 10 to 20 years, if more attention is paid to space exploration. We really don't need a planet like Earth, because people could live on space stations, such as the International Space Station in orbit. However, if advances aren't made, I'd say, never.
2006-07-11 16:30:20 · answer #4 · answered by IspeakToRocks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think further away than in the 1980s. There seems to be no significant interest in it, and that means no significant dollars are going to be spent on it.
I remember their being many cool ideas, like O'Neill (sp) colonies in orbit with gravity by rotation, solar furnaces smelting ore on the Moon and in orbit, solar power stations, and more. And much of it had good sci/eng behind it.
But NASA killed all that by having the most unimaginative moon missions conceivable. USSR is gone and Russia can't get anything together. China has ideas, but who knows? They have a lot of resource issues to deal with.
2006-07-11 19:32:05 · answer #5 · answered by sheeple_rancher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Far from it. Though the possibility of temporarily residing on the moon or in orbit is highly plausible in the next decade, the cost and "specifications" of living enviornment will not be resolved anytime soon.
Besides, as soon as it becomes possible, people would have to run tests and everything to make sure nothing disasterous would happen.
2006-07-11 16:26:50 · answer #6 · answered by M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean, to colonizing and having our civilization in space, at least a hundred years. If you mean to alien civilizations, then the distance to the next race is infinite...waiting to be disproved.
2006-07-11 18:07:05 · answer #7 · answered by creative 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very very far away. we have yet to find another planet that is naturally habitable by humans and the lack of gravity in a "space station" is bad for the human body, it starts to degenerate, the muscles don't have to work and so they start flabbing out, etc etc,... and it takes too long to travel anywhere (even mars). it's just not practical.
2006-07-11 16:26:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we curently have the techonology, we just need to do the research for the right location. within the next 50 years, implying the human race dosent destroy all traces of society, we will have multiple colonys on the moon, and have plans for mars.
2006-07-11 16:41:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're still trying to get one going on earth.
2006-07-11 17:22:28 · answer #10 · answered by frugernity 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋