Do you think humans will ever colonize another planet?

Question

Or will we die off before we get to that point?

Answer 1

I think that civilization will run out of energy and destruct from the loss of technology. The failure of mechanized agriculture will reduce the world's food supply to about 20% of its present annual harvest, and there will be a massive die off later in this century. Although the colonization of the moon and Mars would remain theoretically possible until, perhaps, 2060, the politics of establishing interplanetary colonies, which never were very favorable, will only get worse.

Man will never colonize another planet. We had our chance and squandered it on futile, feel-good projects inspired by "human brotherhood" sentiments. We pumped too much energy into no-win wars in allegedly "noble" causes. We pumped too much energy into no-win foreign aid projects, which merely worsened the situations they were allegedly intended to remedy. Now the energy resources have peaked, and the combative competition of growing economies for the dwindling supplies will heat up greatly. There will be no interest in space exploration in that kind of political environment.

It's significant to those who think that space colonization remains possible that even knowledgeable leftists don't dispute that die off is where we're headed. They've shifted from their rosy Marxist preaching into a kind of morbid damage control in which they attempt to obfuscate their part of the blame for misguided national priorities. The leftists don't want us to recall that they're the ones who encouraged the governments of developed countries, to try, over and over and over again, to put out all sorts of demographic fires by throwing gasoline on them and telling us, when it never worked, that the reason was the bucket was too small, or painted the wrong color, or some other excuse that let them attempt their futile stunts yet again.

Of course, the leftists aren't the only ones to blame. The capitalists must be assigned part of it. Neither the leftist egalitarians nor the capitalist class really invested realistically in the longterm future of civilization. The leftists squandered energy on their sentimental projects, and the capitalists squandered it in pursuit of their own wealth and power... but they BOTH squandered it! There was ONE political system that had the long range vision that we needed, being neither Marxist nor capitalist, and it was destroyed and "discredited" (by war) in 1945.

Fred Hoyle was right. On each planet, there will be one chance, and one chance only. We have had ours and we have failed.

Answer 2

Humans will never establish colonies on other worlds. There are presently no known suitable planets. If any exist they are much too far away to reach. Always remember, there is no Star Trek future for humanity and certainly no faster-than-light travel, no Warp Drive. And there is no way that spacecraft will ever be built that could survive a multi-generational voyage to a far away world, even if one was discovered. There's no way that people would board such a ship, knowing that they and their children & grandchildren would die before reaching Yonada or whatever the place would be called.
As for the second part of the question, my response is absolutely yes. Look around, civilization as we have known it is finished. All that's left is the crying over who's to blame. People should not be having children anymore. Babies born these days will live their adulthood in a very different world than what we have.

Answer 3

Your questions are sorta answering themselves.

Of course we will, we will sooner or later run out of resources here and need to be elsewhere to sustain ourselves.

I noticed another answerer saying there aren't any suitable planets in the solar system and saying that this isn't a Star Trek world, or something along those lines. But Terraforming is hardly Science Fiction, we already do it on a much smaller scale here on Earth very commonly. Simply because an idea has it's roots in fiction, does not mean it is completely unviable. Look at Robotics, Satelites, Cloning and Space travel. All written about before they were done or even tried.

But, to get back to your question. It's a do or die thing. A lot of people seem to think we could very easily die, but I find that rediculously pesimistic. Global Warming? Nuclear War? Ice Age? Religious Fanatics? All these things are likely survivable and inface, we'd have to have amazingly bad luck not to be able to repopulate. They are gargantuan set backs in civilization, not the end of civilization.

Truely, there are only a very few things capable of completely ending human life. A large meteor or comet impact would be the most likely, but even those below the size of planet killers would be survivable.

The real questions are, 'Can we get a self-sustaining foothold on Mars before we run out of luck,' and 'Will we get our act togeather in time?'

I think so, but I could be wrong tomorrow, too. ;)

Answer 4

Brutal truth, canucklehead1951.
Those of us who don't live in the fabricated fantasy land, where our future is bright and all our problems are figured out, are aware that all the promise and potential of the human race has been wasted on bickering about who's God is the right one and who's greed can deplete the resources of our planet fastest.
Here is a fact that most people will simply refuse to face: We don't have very much time left on this planet and we are nowhere near the technology we need to get us out of here.
Whether we do it to ourselves or whether nature takes us out, we are nearing the end for our species and I think we'll go out throttling each other rather than working together to find a way off this rock...

Answer 5

A colony that could survive on another planet without ANY help from Earth is highly unlikely in the next 100 years or even longer. A base that gets regular supplies may be established, but it would die for lack of supplies if life on Earth ended.

Answer 6

Yes. As you know that technology is improving, We may have a chance to colonize other planets like Mars. And maybe we would be alive when that happens.

Answer 7

well if u look at the different planets and see if we can surrive than it is possible but this may never happen i'm in the seventh grade( 13 yrs old) and we just studied global warming and not to worry but the world may be coming to an end! ice caps will melt, countries, cities, and continents will flood and people will be comming here and.........lots of things will happen here that we will have to take care of!!!! we won't have time! My teacher just recently told us this so.......u can trust this info!!!!!! but we may find out sooner what we have to do to surrive on other planets before this happen! we will need resoures from other planets too so thats something to think about! but you never know what will happen...............

Answer 8

I think humans will die before we get to that stage. The earth will become uninhabitable.

Answer 9

We will die because to make a colonie they have to create an atmosphere water food and then u have to find crazy ppl who will risk their lives for science

Answer 10

i think we'll colonize another planet...ppl are already concerned with the uncertain future of earth...mars is looking pretty good right now