Will it be owned by the nation that lands first? Who will be a legitimate candidate to live there, and what kind of rules will there be about religion and so on?
SHOOT!
2007-06-06 03:23:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I gave this a star because I think it is such a very good question. Interestingly, the precedent for such encounters has been set. Meetings between vastly different cultures have happened here on this planet. Some have been peaceful and mutually beneficial, but unfortunately, most have not.
If we encounter other intelligent life, I would not be surprised to find the words "Federation Prime Directive" being bandied about by policy-makers. It may very well set the precedent for interplanetary/interspecies contact and would become law for all humans.
I would HOPE that we have advanced beyond the conquistadores. The new land will not be owned by nations. There will be treaties to prevent it. But if private venture gets involved, well, this would be a subject for good debate.
(Oh, darn, you said "habitable" not "inhabited." Oh well.)
2007-06-06 03:36:48 · answer #1 · answered by Brant 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, technically it the Moon (Not a Planet) and then Mars. That what we have found so far. From there we will probably inhabit some more Moons and Planets within our Solar System as we learn more of how to inhabit them. The closest Planet outside our Solar System is many, many Light Years away. But, if man still around 1,000 years from now we may have the technology to go there.
Space is supposed to be a joint effort by the Nations working together. That what the International Space Station is all about. Each country contributed different parts, at least the countries that are trying to work together.
2007-06-06 03:36:26 · answer #2 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh course it's going to belong to the people who were there first! Mostly doctors and people with use able brain cells would live there if it was like a Utopia or something, but if it's a right s*it hole then they'll send the chavs and benefit scroungers and call it a Utopia (hahaha, I live in a dream world don't I?)
Knowing humans, we'll go in with our huge size twelves and stomp all over the poor natives (from what happened to the Native Americans AND the Aborigines) and impose our own religions and beliefs and stuff.
2007-06-06 04:17:27 · answer #3 · answered by smiley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. Well, the moment we'll find a new habitable planet (it is obvious it would have some pre-existing life),so we will start studying them and destroying them.
Your question regarding government , I guess no matter who finds/lands on the planet, the most powerful country on this world at the time would rule there.Also, it would frame such ridiculously awkward rules about government ,that only the people that it wants ,would rule .
So,in short ,it would lead to the same conditions which we are facing currently.
I also agree with Red5 ,KBW3 and the one who said regarding messing the planet etc.
2007-06-06 03:46:39 · answer #4 · answered by Jaladhi S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i do no longer think of we could do plenty. evaluate this: It takes various months to get to Mars at 30,000 to 50,000 miles according to hour. the optimal velocity at which any spacecraft has ever escaped from the Earth is 35,800 mph (fifty seven,600 km/h) interior the case of the recent Horizons probe, which became into released in January 2006 and is now heading in direction of Pluto. With help from the solar the quickest any spacecraft has ever reached is one hundred fifty,000 miles according to hour going around the solar. If a spacecraft left the photograph voltaic device at a million,000,000 miles according to hour (over 5 cases as quickly as any spacecraft we've ever built it may take 2905.7 YEARS to holiday the 25.5 Trillion miles attain basically the closest famous guy or woman. which capacity if a spacecraft had left the earth at a million million miles according to hour the 365 days Rome became into based, the 365 days Solomon took the throne from King David, the 365 days The Greeks destroyed Troy – that spacecraft could basically be arriving on the closest famous guy or woman. The argument for existence someplace else has continually based around the huge type of stars interior the universe. specializing in basically one famous guy or woman destroys the argument. incredibly because Alpha Centauri is quite a triple famous guy or woman device: Alpha Centauri A, B and C. one in each of those device could be weird and wonderful for any available planet orbiting.
2016-11-26 19:07:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably nothing because with today's technology, we'd never know it was inhabitable and at today's speeds we travel through space at, it would take a few hundred thousand years to get to it. According to an international treaty, no nation on earth may claim anything outside the earth for its own.
2007-06-06 03:30:29 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We will probably just use it as a landfill site and the only people living there will be the ones that work at the landfill! Bit like red dwarf scene me thinks!
2007-06-06 03:33:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If we manage to eradicate the native population of this planet we'll simply mess it up like we've messed up our own planet.
2007-06-06 03:43:55 · answer #8 · answered by Helios100 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
George bush will probly put it on the axis of evil list then invade thinking it's got weapons of mass destruction on it !!!!
2007-06-06 03:45:09 · answer #9 · answered by Red5 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Assuming we could get there more easily than we can today, you would see bedlam erupt!
2007-06-06 03:33:39 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋