Will we ever colonize space?

Answer 1

For sure. Space colonization is inevitable starting with the Moon in 2009. By 2020, we will have established a small lunar colony which will most likely become a space port to mars. The Moon is also a great source of helium 3.

Mars is the big question. It is a dry, lifeless (although some might oppose this statement) desert with two poles of CO2 and possibly water. We can colonize it one of two ways:

We can build 'houses' on the Martian surface or bring 'blow-up' houses on the colonizing spacecraft or we attempt to terraform. In case you didn't know, terraformation (literally, "Earth-shaping") is the process of modifying a planet, moon or other body to a more habitable atmosphere, temperature or ecology. In other words, making mars like earth. How?

Well mars has two poles, as I said before. By melting these (probably with a massive nuclear reaction) we would release the CO2 and H2O. The carbon dioxide would form a new atmosphere over mars' existing one and the water would flood the earth to provide a suitable environment for plants. These plants could then change the carbon dioxide to oxygen for us humans to breathe. At that point though, the atmosphere would have become depleted so we would have to build thousands of factories all over the martian surface to release CO2 back into the air. Basically we would encourage global warming. However, terraformation could take well over 100,000 years.

As for the other planets, well they're a little farther off. Venus is completely inhospitable (despite sci-fi writers' earlier predictions) but we could still live in the 'clouds'. Jupiter and Saturn are almost entirely gas and Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are a bit too far to travel - yet.

Answer 2

Almost certainly we will. The question is really not if, but when. Right now, it seems to be a remote possibility--but if you think carefully about it, you'll see its really not far-fetched.

At the present time, space travel is extremely expensive--but almost all of the expense is due to how much it costs to launch anything into orbit. Once you're up there, things are a lot easier. here's an example to show you what I mean: If you look back at the Apollo project--specifically the Saturn 5 moon rocket, you'll see that that huge rocket was needed just to get the Apollo spacecraft and Luner lander up in to earth orbit. But that small spacecraft was able to go from there all the way to the moon--land, take off again, and return to earth. 98% of the Saturn 5 was needed just for the first 100 miles of that journey!

But--as astronauts on board space stations (firstSkylav, then Mir, and now the ISS) have shown, people can live in space for long periods. And once we have a better infrastructure in earth orbit, reaching the moon and beyond will be difficult at first--but feasiible. And theere are far MORE resources in space than on earth--on the moon and in Near-Earth Asteroids (plush a lot of other places)--which are the objects we can reach most easily.

It all comes down to developing really good, reliable, and cost-effective spacecraft to get into orbit in the first place--and that's starting to happen! Once we have that, living in space--and learning how to access those resources to build colonies--won't be easy. But it will be practicle--and the possibilities of space mining and manufacturing mean it will eventually be economically a good investment.

Answer 3

Good question. If the world remains sufficiently stable for the critical period of time and if the will of the people allows the government to continue to play the pioneering role, and if corporations find profits in time to satisfy their shareholders, then yes we will colonize space itself in the form of space stations, the Moon, and Mars at least. The true beginning of that process will probably be the year 2020.

Answer 4

Damn right we will - of course i'm not the bloody oracle, we could all die tomorrow for instance from an Asteroid, but if something like that doesn't happen then yes, sure we will.

There is bound to be other races like ourselves out there that will maybe fins us and share technologys and help us cure Cancer, imagine that.

So chins up, maybe by the end of this year we may get a visit lol - well as long as they visit before we're gone anyway.

Answer 5

Which is also asking will we survive even if even if the question didn't ask that directly. Those who do not want us to colonise space if they had a say in whether we manage it would result in our species and all the cute little animals on Earth going extinct.

I think we will and it should be done by the end of this century.

Answer 6

We have already. I just returned and am planning to go again this summer.

Just kidding, but I do believe we will colonize Space someday.

Answer 7

I think someday we will. Probably not in my lifetime, but we have space station, so the next step I suppose would be colonizing space.

Answer 8

the only way that human beings will ever depart earth to stay someplace else is by skill of terraforming yet another planet in our photograph voltaic device (mars is the only suitable candidate). human beings will maximum possibly on no account attain yet another celebrity, because of the fact even the closest is lightyears away, which might take us actually invariably to holiday... If we can form an environment around mars, then that's obtainable. If no longer, then human beings will on no account stay off of earth. The logistics of living with out an environment are too complicated - wearing oxygen everywhere you go, having to be extremely careful with each and every circulation so which you dont tear your healthy and divulge your self to the vaccuum of area, staying out of the 2 hundred degree solar (and the minus one hundred eighty degree shade)...

Answer 9

that's relay depends if there's life outside earth.
if no then highly probable, because we can already get there and it shouldn't be too long till we build a atmosphere on there and live on other planets. but we wont be able to live without the atmosphere so we will need to be able to build a atmosphere on a planet or just abit of a planet to live on it.

if there is life outside of earth then as soon as we leave our planet and start to colonies then we will probably just be slaughtered and completely wiped out. however i doubt any of this will happen within 50 years so it probably wont affect many people alive now

Answer 10

Probably...... someday, who knows?
But for the moment being, it's too expensive
to do so. When the planet gets too crowded,
developing nations have a greater chance of
being wiped out. That sounds mean, but is
more likely to happen. :|