Do you think we'll colonize another planet in the near future?

Question

In the next 100 or so years, as the global warming-related problems become more acute, do you think humans A) will have found another planet capable of supporting human life and B) begun colonizing it with businesses, homes, infrastructure, etc. ?

Answer 1

nah.. we'll probably blow ourselves up before that happens.

Answer 2

I'm not sure within' the next 100 year...and if there is such an advancement in the human race, they won't annouce it to the public. the faire to go to a distant galaxy will only be accessible to those who are billionares. So basically if there is such a thing and travelling to other galaxies become reality, they would keep it a secret and just send those with money off...I would think global warming will actually help the earth more than harm it. It will cause disasters, but in the end i feel it will only force us humans to think "ahead" of our current mind frequency.

i'm not sure if the materials on earth would be available on another planet, the unknown planet might have things your imagination could never dream off. Maybe materials that can take any form..you never know. Sound a bit like a fantasy, i guesss we'll have to see.

I can make a safe bet, there is life outside our universe, i mean come on. We just found a planet with water...thats just the beginning.

And when we do find one to sustan our kind of life, who will decide who gets to stay or go? spaceships can only hold a few souls...unless we find a way to bend time...and enter that dark hole that scares the hell out of us.

Answer 3

I think it's likely that mankind have some sort of colony on the moon. Whether it will be self-sustaining within 100 years, or even exporting materials back to earth is debatable.

I think it's possible that we will have something on Mars, but on a smaller scale. The moon is 2-3 days away. Mars is MONTHS away - one way. Because of differences in orbit, there's probably a 2 year layover once we get there, too. Unless we can send a robitic factory that will make air, fuel, etc, that means we'd have to take EVERYTHING to survive for at least 3 years, and every single thing would have to be recyclable and multifunctional. Do you think you could live in a space the size of a large SUV for 3 years? That's about what it would be like for the first crew.

You didn't mention this possibility, but I think a better choice than Mars for a colony would be one of the LaGrange points. There are 5 points in the earth-moon system where an object placed there would tend to stay put without using a rocket to keep it in place. These exist in front of and behind the moon in its orbit, on the far size of the moon, between the moon and earth, and on the far side of earth, on the side away from the moon. If we got a large asteroid and parked it there, it could be hollowed out and mined for resources, and to make living space.

Answer 4

For a colony : No probability contained in the subsequent 100 years. For terraforming : it really is fully no longer possible - Mars lacks the gravity to carry an ecosystem. it ought to if 3 or 4 Mars sized gadgets were added to Mars --- yet there is not any accessible fabric. lets placed a base on Mars. A base with have a small type of those who lower back to Earth after a era on Mars. Even which could no longer possible on the instantaneous -- notwithstanding it may develop into possible in about 30 years. it should be severe priced. which ability a political candidate has to spend a lot of money in an section the position NO voters stay. So do not get your hopes up.

Answer 5

It's not very feasible. I did the math; people are being born faster than we could realistically ship them off the planet.

Having said that, I do believe that we will have begun the colonization of other planets by the end of the century, but I doubt that there will be civilian access to those facilities yet... such colonies will probably not begin forming until around 2080 or so.

Answer 6

We're certainly not going to colonize another planet due to global warming. Whatever people think about global warming, even in the worst case scenario we're not going to have to evacuate planet Earth. Take a chill pill.

Aside from that, I think sooner or later some effort will colonize Mars -- if maybe just some biosphere type camps. But only Mars -- anywhere else is unworkable.

Answer 7

No. It would be prohibitively expensive and would require more resources than the earth even has. Look what it cost 35 years ago just to put two guys on the moon for two days. Imagine ferrying 6 billion humans and all their life support needs at least five light years away from earth. We're going to have to make it here or we're not going to make it at all. There's no place like home.

Answer 8

Can't build a half decent rocket-plane let alone an interstellar spaceship!

The goverment controls the money, the military controls the goverment. There is no gain for the military to spend money going some place there is nothing to gain. Therefore no space travel!

Get rid of the politicians and military, let the engineers and scientist with a dash of accountants take control and we may solve all problems on Earth!

Answer 9

Very likely, what other choice but to move out when the world is coming to an end. They'll be the only option or extinction for man kind. However very likely Man would expand underground and underwater first before getting to space. It's just easier and closer. Than when the earth becomes inhabitable, perhaps the moon, than another planet.

Answer 10

You haven't defined near future!

Will we have a self supporting group of people on another planet in the next hundred years. No.

None of the planets in the solar system can become self supporting ecologies, even closed system, in that time frame.

As for other solar systems, given present propulsion technology, never. Given advances in propulsion technology it may become feasible, but not in next hundred years.

But hey, we only stopped knocking rocks together about 15000 years ago so who knows.

Answer 11

It is hard to say, but probably no. The first problem is that to get to the nearest habitable planet (we think is habitable) would take almost 2000 years traveling at the speed of light!. Of course we do not have that tech yet so our means would be closer to about 30,000 mile per hour so that puts us at about 260 million years to get there.