whats the nearest planet capable of sustaining life?

Answer 1

There is no planet that we know of that can sustain human life. Many scientist believe that Mars maybe able to sustain some microsopic life forms. I don't think they have found any yet.

Answer 2

You're standing on it. After Earth, the question becomes "what kind of life?" Mars may have bacterial life that has somehow survived underground for the billions of years since what passed for its oceans dryed up. Jupiter's moon Europa may have liquid water oceans under a crust of ice. What may have formed in that ocean won't be known for a couple of decades. There may be other moons, such as several orbiting Saturn with similar capabilities. All those could possibly harbor microscopic life as we know it. Change the parameters a bit to kinds of life that we haven't yet conceived, throw in a few million earthlike planets in this galaxy and statistically, there are a lot of possibilities. But until we get some actual data and do some visits, it's all guesswork for now. Earth could be the only planet with life in our solar system. It could be the only one in the galaxy. Unlikely, but people do win the lottery, with apparently unbeatable odds.

Answer 3

The inside of an asteroid, once you hollow it out, terraform part of the interior, put in a spaceship docking area and some airlocks, pump in air, and set the thing spinning for artificial gravity.

I think I'd use the first asteroid to make a huge parabolic reflector, maybe several hundred kilometers in diameter, and use it to melt other asteroids, maybe siphoning off the volatiles into steel or aluminum tanks. (To do that, you'd surround the asteroid with something hard, not easily melted, and mostly transparent to sunlight.) You could catch hydrocarbons that way I think.

Once you can command lots of solar power and raw material resources, you can pretty much start up a manufacturing industry. If you can get initialized for it, you'll soon find ways of raising your creative powers by bootstrapping (i.e., creating better capital goods with the ones you already have, with your powerplant supplying the energy needed to pay the entropic cost).

I doubt that humanity really has enough gumption to do this, but it can, I believe, be done.

Answer 4

People on earth must be pretty stupid to believe they are the only ones that live on a planet the universe is to big for us to be the only people around

Answer 5

I agree with the first answer. It has yet to be discovered. So it is not in this solar system which means it is some light years away and we have no hope of going there in your lifetime, no matter how young you are now.

Answer 6

None. Other than Earth, none have been conclusively proven to sustain life, but Mars is suspected to be.

Answer 7

I think mars because of the currents of dried water

Answer 8

It has yet to be discovered