A communications network will allow us to observe the outer planets. Automated robotics can be controlled from remote locations to farm and terra-form the worlds. What is the delay with saving human kind? We always have funds to destroy and kill.
2006-10-14 10:50:15 · 13 answers · asked by KnowSean 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There are people who feel that this is needed, and it certainly is a great cause, but there are so many people who have a the idea that they are gonna die anyway or arent really convinced that this will help us.
-Sean
2006-10-14 11:00:09 · answer #1 · answered by __Sean__ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no concievable way to terraform a gas giant. The only world we could even try is Mars. It wouldn't be all that hard to give it some sort of atmosphere, but the solar energy available there to turn CO2 into oxygen would take close to a million years to do the job.
And we already have a communications network. Three US craft and one European ship are orbiting Mars and watching it. They also relay pictures and information from two very tough little robots wandering around the surface. We also have one around Saturn, and others on the way to Mercury and Pluto.
2006-10-14 11:07:29 · answer #2 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good idea. But if we had the technology, the will, and the money to do terraforming of outer planets, then we would also have the technology, the will, and the money to "fix" the mess we've got ourselves into on Earth.
Some people also believe that we shoudn't start altering other worlds until we've learned how to take care of our own.
2006-10-20 08:53:40 · answer #3 · answered by Janet712inEngland 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cost. Communication is not the problem; doing anything with the information is. The cost of putting a payload on Mars is many millions of dollars per pound, and the energy cost of trying to create an oxygen atmosphere there (which it could not keep, there not being enough gravity) would be stupendous.
2006-10-14 11:15:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mainly cost of resources within the backdrop of present technologies. However,that may indeed change... even before you & I pass away... IT DEPENDS! MONEY will ALWAYS be an issue if we continue to embrace the economic systems of yesteryear. The human species is not "focused" enough on ventures like this yet, and until we've solved many of the energy, political, & chronic economic issues, space programs will continue to take a backseat.
2006-10-14 12:13:17 · answer #5 · answered by cherodman4u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is already being produced; an American astrophysicist has developed a way to adapt TCP/IP to interplanetary radio communication.
But I really think it would be a better idea for us to terraform Earth FIRST. We have no right to modify other planets when we can't even control our pollution at home!
2006-10-14 11:51:57 · answer #6 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't have the technology to terraform any of the planets and it may not even be possible. However, in Venus of Dreams and Venus of Shadows, Pamela Sargent explores the possibility of terraforming Venus. Her approach doesn't make scientific sense, but it's sci-fi so I had fun reading it. I highly recommend these books. I usually give books bad reviews, but not these.
2006-10-14 11:36:55 · answer #7 · answered by dtshaff 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you know how to build robots that can really do that, why not use them on Earth? If they can make Mars or Neptune habitable then they should be able to easily solve all our environmental problems right here!
2006-10-14 13:55:42 · answer #8 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do have crafts on and around other planets that send information back to us. Also, it would be very difficult to inhabit another planet, so even impossible. We need oxygen to live and no other planet has it.
2006-10-19 03:07:20 · answer #9 · answered by Krissy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're too busy spending money on killing us off rather than assuring our future as a species.
2006-10-14 11:00:37 · answer #10 · answered by oceansoflight777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋