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The obvious place to go if you are highly concerned about our planet entering its terminal phase is "home."

No other planet will support carbon based life forms such as human beings, and there is no available means for exit from the Earth, nor to transport any of the masive support consumeables that would be required for such a venture, such as food, water, medicines and air.

2007-07-26 23:08:27 · answer #1 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0 0

Seems we have about 40 years until all the polar and glacial ice is gone. That's when conditions will start to get bad. Even that's hard to tell, since everything has been happeneing hundreds of years sooner than the climate models predicted. Same stuff just sooner. I attribute that to all the factors that have been excluded from the models over the years for political reasons. Everytime I look I hear about a new one. Since they set up the IPCC they've really zeroed in on that issue. They've been adding them back in as fast as they find them, but events are still well ahead of predicted. It's always the same two behind it too, the US and Saudi Arabia. Anyway, we're toast, it's just a question of when. I used to think it wouldn't be in my lifetime, but now I do. For the last few years they've moved several important events (like the ice) forward several decadesand it's stiil melting faster than they say.

The only place we could possibly go is the moon. That would only buy us time, but I expect even that idea is going to look pretty good real soon. To have a viable gene pool you'd need something in the range of 500-1000 individuals. We aren't going to build a habitat for that many in orbit, with a food and water supply soon enough. Ditto for Mars. We have a shot at the Moon if we get right on it. It has every resource we need except hydrogen. We either need to find some up there soon, or figure out a way to ship it up there. It appears to me that's what this "back to the moon" business is really about. We need a lander we can mass produce, and a staging area in orbit. We're not the only people who can read a thermometer, so I expect the competion will continue to increase, way beyond anything we saw during the cold war.

2007-07-27 13:04:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The world will not become uninhabitable for millions of years from now. However, the sun gradually heats up and that will eventually kill us.

To escape, Mars would be a good stopping point. Terrafroming mars would buy us some more time and it is the safest planet other than Earth. Beyond that, we woudl have to move further and further out to escape the heat. The asteroid belt coudl be colonised, then the moons of the gas giants. Eventually the safest place woudl be an orbiting colony out in the Kuiper belt beyond pluto, where we woudl be safe from the heat until the sun died. The problem woudl be sustaining a colony out there.

2007-07-27 07:55:07 · answer #3 · answered by Bob B 7 · 0 0

Not close enough, but I'll answer your question because it sounds cool and it would be good to think about it if i am fatally wrong about the date of Armageddon(or whatever it's called.)
If the Earth was in impending doom, i would send like, 30% to Europa to drill through and live deep in it's volcanic heated oceans.
I would send 69.80% to mars to do whatever, and live or die(i wouldn't care) and 0.20% would go to the sun, just like in the simpsons episode where Homer destroys Earth.

Me? ah.... i would be on a planet that we (me my family, and Guy) found in the Andromeda galaxy, called planet Phlosten, and live happiliy ever after.

P.S: Perhaps planet Phlosten rings a name? I'll give you a clue: Bruce Willis.

2007-07-27 06:14:07 · answer #4 · answered by Eddyking4 2 · 0 0

If you call 7,000,000,000 years near. That is Isaac Asimov's estimate of when the Sun will burn Earth to a cinder as it expands into a red giant. By then, humans may be extinct or have evoved into something else.

2007-07-27 10:55:08 · answer #5 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0 0

1. Yes. It in our greed to have big houses and fast cars we've devoured the planets resources.
2. Nowhere. We don't need to ruin the rest of the universe like we ruined our home.

2007-07-27 05:20:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

depends on what you think the end of the world is. but no i don't think so. and we're not going to another planet, we're going to hell baby! who's coming with me?

2007-07-27 03:48:29 · answer #7 · answered by optcynbassist 3 · 0 0

i don't think...end of the world is near..if yes then i shouldn't wanna go any were.....I'll die... before d world is end....

2007-07-27 03:46:18 · answer #8 · answered by shruti 1 · 0 0

No I do not. U will be dead long before the sun explodes.

2007-07-27 09:22:56 · answer #9 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0 0

we have untill 2011 to stop global warming. if we dont stop it by then, we're screwed. we gotta go 2 mars

2007-07-27 03:42:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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