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2007-02-07 00:21:29 · 9 answers · asked by Answer-Me-This 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Better hope so ... Dr. Hawking thinks we're going to need to be
colonizing in space in the next 100 years for the species.
If we ever want to be able to look out on the sky unimpeded,
we'll need it.
Its quite possible, just hideously expensive and beyond our
current justification.
So is the "space elevator", etc. These things come when
the rest of society is ready for them, and then they are
not only affordable, but a requirement.
2007-02-07 00:25:49 · answer #1 · answered by Elana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mars would be the closest and most likely to be terraformed. The atmosphere contains carbon dioxide and nitrogen. If we "infected" Mars with plant life, it would be several thousand years before we could breathe there. It would also get much colder. It's already too cold for humans there. If terraforming is ever used, it would be long after we discover a means for efficient interstellar travel. There may be thousands of worlds in our own galaxy that are already habitable, but until we can fold space or travel faster than the speed of light without killing ourselves, we won't be able to find out where they are.
2007-02-07 09:17:38 · answer #2 · answered by Surveyor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO ...You'd have to empty the earth to build an atmosphere on mars for example. There are just not enough resources and a planet is a huge thing to affect. Everyone complains about global warming but it has only gone up 1 degree in 125 years and we're not sure how much of that we did. That's with everyone in the world adding to it. Now try replacing an atmosphere on a planet and adjusting it's gas content.
2007-02-07 08:27:11 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the documentaries from Nasa it looks like it would be possible but it will take a hundreds of years to do they said. We really have no choice but to give it a shot, the sun has only 5 billion years left in it, earth will melt, we need to find some other place if the humans are to survive, mars is the next best thing so we have to try
2007-02-07 08:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not until we learn to both read and write the genetic code, bio-engineering micro organisms to breed prolifically to provide that environment which we require, then either die out or mutate as a result of that newly created environment to another beneficial form.
2007-02-07 08:39:10 · answer #5 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is kind of funny to think that humans want to terraform another planet while they are slowly killing this one.
2007-02-07 08:24:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can barely get a human to the moon or mars. I don't think we'll be terrafroming in the next eon.
2007-02-07 08:30:05 · answer #7 · answered by strunbike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we will be changing things enough so that man kind will be able to live else where in space.
2007-02-07 09:11:26 · answer #8 · answered by Floyd B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no u cant
2007-02-07 08:51:18 · answer #9 · answered by naina mrc 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋