Which planet in our solar system would be best for humans to establish on?And why?

Answer 1

Come on, folks! Think just a little bit out of the box...

Planets are for visiting- not living on.

Are you comfortable above 90 Fahrenheit? Below 60? What mixture of gases would you like to breath today?

The point is we can BUILD the environment we want and TAKE it wherever we want. Once we get out of Earth's gravity well, the resources of the whole solar system are at our disposal.

Mike Combs writes: "'Planetary chauvinism' was a phrase coined by Isaac Asimov. He used it to refer to our natural tendency to assume that most activities are better done on planetary (or lunar) surfaces than in orbital space." (Ref. 1)

A quote from Gerard O’Neill from the same article:

"We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is 'somewhere else entirely'."

Answer 2

Earth "was" the best, thats why life got evolved to the point where "humans" were born.

Its a natual evolution process, if some other planet is (was) better suited, life would have evolved there tooo.....

But now the better question would be, in how many years will the present humans destroy earth to an extent that almost all life forms will be destroyed.....i bet the end is not far......just 50-100 years away.

Then probably we have to figure "which is the next best planet"......even if we get the answer, we wont have the technology to transfer the complete 7 billion people to that :)

Answer 3

I guess you mean which planet other than our own. Mars would be the first choice. Even though the atmosphere is cold and thin it's the closest planet to us and may have enough water to supply hydroponics plants and serve as a raw material to make breathable oxygen and hydrogen for a fuel. The atmosphere is predominantly CO2 and so becomes a source material for synthesizing organic compounds. It also has the least hostile surface conditions of any planet other than earth.

Answer 4

i think the earth would be the best planet to establish a base on, it seems almost perfect to sustain human life. a so-called type M planet rating. we would have to impose some terraforming techniques to cleanse the atmosphere, and impose population control on the current inhabitants, due to over population, and misuse of the natural resources. the only other planet we could use would be mars, but since it has no magnetic field, we would have to constantly be protected from radiation. makes it kinda hard to relax with a hundred pounds of lead on all the time.

Answer 5

None of them, really. Mercury is too hot, Venus is too volatile, Mars perhps but it is too hot, the atmosphere is too thin and it has a weak gravitational pull. The gas giants are not solid and the force of their gravity would crush a human long before he reached the surface (if there is one) and Pluto is far too cold. Earth is just a rare combination of all the right elements and distance from the Sun. As for the Moon, it isn't likely - the weak atmoshpere (thus lack of oxygen) and low gravitaional pull would be very difficult to overcome.

Answer 6

The only other planet that would be even remotely habitable is Mars. Venus has molten lead on it, Mercury is just too close to the sun and Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus are all gas planets. Neptune and Pluto are too far from the sun. There is some speculation that one of Saturn's moons would be habitable, but I sincerely doubt it.

Answer 7

we will have to move off of earth at one point or another even if we fixed the pollution problem because of overcrowding so when we must I'd say Venus its gravity is similar to ours and its atmosphere is what our planets atmosphere was before life existed on our planet nitrogen carbon dioxide and low oxygen with a lot of water vapor what caused our planet to become inhabitable was a bacteria that lived on carbon dioxide and could live in lava /magma/ it would take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen after millions of years enough carbon dioxide was consumed to cool off the planet allowing the water vapor to condense and fall as rain causing the molten ground to sollidify and the oceans to form and with the carbon dioxide depleted and the oxygen levels increased life could begin to evolve from these bacteria so in theory if you could get enough of the bacteria/ which still exists living in the gaseous unlivable pits of active volcanos/ you could could cause the same events to occur on venus that happened billions of years ago thus creating a livable atmosphere and water the problem would be that it would take a very very long time to do this another problem would be transporting the bacteria you would need a container that could transport molten lava as well as a large amount of carbon dioxide and a way to keep the lava molten also if you did transport the bactereria and reterraformed venus there is also the problem of the magnetic sphere which on earth protects us against the suns radiation as well as providing a way to communicate you would also have to wait untul you could send plant to the planet so that the oxygen can be sustained as well as there being a suitable supply of food for animals then send in the animals after forests and feild and plains are grown and wait untill they multiply and thrive before going there ourselves not to mention the tremendous cost of doing this which would cost more than the years it would take to do this /billions/ but and from here on i am just guessing if you could geneticaly engeneer the bacteria into a much better consumer of carbon dioxide you could and again i am just guessing speed the process up quite a bit but then you would have to moniter for a long time the progress of carbon dioxide consumtion so that it is not all consumed which and this is fact prevent plants from growing and in turn ruin everything

Answer 8

I think the moon is the best- as far as planets go though I'd have to say Mars- even though the sandstorms would suck. The easiest climate to deal with would probably be The Moon- or Saturn.

Answer 9

I would still say earth. There are no other planet in the solar planet quite suitable for us. So if we ever trashed this planet which we live in, we are so screwed.

Answer 10

Mars. It doesn't have water but there is evidence that there was once water. With that said it is also the ONLY planet we can settle on because of the temperature. Venus is too hot and jupiter is too cold.