I hear all these big scientific types talk about relocating to Mars.
My question is earth has conditions suitable for life. right?
we cant live here anymore.
so we shift to Mars which is NOT suitable to life.
Is that a sensible thought?
2006-08-10 21:47:02 · 8 answers · asked by chris_muriel007 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Eventually, with overpopulation, pollution, and draining nonrenewable resources we will probably have to look to new skies.
It will take many, many years to even have people live on Mars unless some enormously significant breakthroughs in science occur.
I agree. There are substantially more important problems to be worked out here. However, it is fun to dream about.
2006-08-10 21:55:31 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's kind of what Stephen Hawking said before.
Mars is currently not suitable for life, but it is close by and more suitable to life than the other planets. Because there is ice and some plants can grow in the soil, Mars can support human bases much better than say, the Moon. Thus, as of now, Mars seems to be the best known candidate for our potential "relocation"
2006-08-10 21:56:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well in a couple million years life on Earth just might be a normal thing again. Somewhere in those years there will be some sort of explosion caused by an enormous asteroid, like suggested as a theory of the permian mass extinction. It will remake the entire Earth, and perhaps becomes life-sustaining once more, even if humans become extinct and die out before this, which seems like the only fate we are seeing for humanity.
2006-08-10 22:04:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't be too much longer before we overpopulate the earth. But, relocating to Mars simply isn't a feasible option in the near future, it would take a long time just to get it set up with plants (assuming that is even possible). I think scientists think about how it would be possible to relocate to Mars because 1) It would be really cool to be able to travel there 2) to stretch their intellectual muscles. 3) it may be the best option sometime in the future.
2006-08-10 22:00:07 · answer #4 · answered by laetusatheos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you obviously weren't paying attention -- Mars has to be conditioned for life first. The 'life zone' in our solar system is actually moving, so one day, in the distant future, Earth will be way too hot to live on, whereas Mars would be theoretically viable for life, although it would have to be conditioned over, say, 100 years -- trees planted for the oxygen and CO2... this would speed up the processes that made Earth liveable.
2006-08-10 21:54:48 · answer #5 · answered by hasina_ghani 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We all do not have to work on the same problem at the same time. Some study medicine, some study mathmatics, others study what it will take for us to live on Mars.
2006-08-10 22:03:16 · answer #6 · answered by upallnite 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sensible?
if mars doesnt support life...is it sensible to stay there? weird!!
2006-08-10 21:52:47 · answer #7 · answered by scintillating_baby 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lol sensible thought?
SINCE WHEN DO RELIGIOUS FAGS SAY ANYTHING SENSIBLE?
2006-08-10 21:51:33 · answer #8 · answered by billy s 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋