2007-05-01 04:45:27 · 10 answers · asked by vlad p 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
We have learnt so much from exploring our own solar system and looking outside it that going outside is the only next logical step.
Futhermore, the human race simply cannot survive on this planet at the rate we are populating it and using up the natural resources. Without the ability to settle on another planet (the only current possibility being Mars but the air would kill us before we had a chance), we would need to look outside our own solar system for a similar to Earth planet to settle a colony on.
Oh, besides the moon of course.
2007-05-01 04:52:13 · answer #1 · answered by DMsView 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is much evidence that weightless travel to a planet as close as Mars would have a terrible impact on the body, specifically, muscles would atrophy. Thus, travel outside the solar system is highly improbable.
2007-05-01 21:59:37 · answer #2 · answered by Jackson B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its mad.
We are so far from it technoloigcally, and achiving it could cost us the planet. This is the only planet we have. It is irreplaceable. We know of no other that supports life - let alone our civilization. And we would have no moral right to colonize a planet that did support life if we did - it is not our planet, it is theirs (whoever they are).
Civilization is less than 10,000 years old. Thats less than a thousandth of a percent of the age of the Earth. And yet we are already obsessing about our survival requiring us to be able to escape Earth. I need a lot more convincing that we can survive the next 10,000 years than that we need worry about something we might need to do in 5 billion years time. And that survival will definitely NOT need space travel.
2007-05-01 12:00:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The distance is the reason.
It will take a lot of very smart people, a long time, to build a ship that can travel very far, very fast.
Every time we build such things, life get's better for all of us because we find new things to develop, and sell.
PS Most likely space travel will be all done by robots. Safer for everyone.
2007-05-01 12:03:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At our present technology we can not travel to Mars with a fair certainty that we would return alive. The further from Earth the more vulnerable we are.
2007-05-01 12:23:42 · answer #5 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are no closer to being able to travel outside our solar system now than Columbus was to being able to travel to the Moon.
2007-05-01 11:50:01 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To insure man's survival, extra-solar travel will be necessary. But we aren't ready yet. It's a shame we aren't trying to *get* ready, also.... in my humble opinion.
2007-05-01 11:55:22 · answer #7 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For? .....Voyager is doing that. That wasn't to expensive but sending men/man isn't a good idea yet.
2007-05-01 11:53:19 · answer #8 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to get further away from terrorists
to find oil
to find other resources
to get fabulously rich
2007-05-01 14:34:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
hope we do(if we get past)"the van ryan belt".
OooHooooo!!!
2007-05-04 02:21:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋