from planet earth to another planet earth?

Question

Are there any possibilities that thousands of years from now, human may leave the earth and thrive in "another earth", a place better than earth, for any good reasons.

Answer 1

If you could travel at 150,000 miles/hour, it would take 17,900 years just to get to the nearest solar system. So before we can even begin to contemplate the idea of going to another solar system, we need to figure out how to go much, much faster. And even then, a trip would probably have to be a multi-generational trip where we leave Earth and they reach their destination several generations later.

Unless we find a way to travel through worm holes or bend the fabric of space/time, we're unlikely to ever be able to visit other solar systems.

Furthermore, even if travel were not an obstacle, what's to prevent such a planet from already being inhabited.

Answer 2

It is not just possible, it is inevitable. We know there are planets out there we just don´t know yet if there are any livable planets or planets that could be made livable. It will take decades to find a candidate world. Then the decision will be made. Should we go? Because by then we will have the technology for lightspeed travel. I take it to you that the technology already exists. Some "infrastructure" is needed however.

So the distance is not really an issue. You send robotic workers that begin setting up shop, building habitats and the infrastructure. Robots don´t care if the journey takes a century in sub light speed. But will humans dare to go? Because although they will not experience time it will still take years, decades and maybe even centuries to reach the destination. Everyone you have ever known back on earth may be dead. Now you face a whole new world with completely different living conditions and dangers. Could the human psyche take such a challenge?

Answer 3

Well the problem is that Earth is an artificial enviroment created by the large density of biological life growing on the earths crust that it constantly changing the planet. Even if humans were lucky enough to find another planet with life on it, it probably still wouldn't be habitable because life would have evolved in a different direction from earth.

The quest for resources will drive the exploration and eventual colonization of the galaxy. However, I don't think we'll ever find a place better then Earth unless we make our current earth uninhabitable.

Answer 4

Due to the fact that the universe is huge and the number of planets and other astronomical bodies it contains is so great, it is very likely that another planet similar to earth exists and it even may contain life. Finding a planet with human beings on it however would be extremely unlikely. Not only would you have to find a planet like earth but millions of years of events would have to occur in a very similar order to what they did on earth to form humans. Think about it like a math equation, if you don't do the stuff in the brackets before the exponents, and the exponents before the division and so on you don't get the right answer... it will be something completely different.

Answer 5

I just cant resist answering this way:

http://deoxy.org/inc2.htm is only one page in a vast assortment of chaotic ramblings available on line or in print
that suggest that some already dwell on another "Pristine" Earth
The information is not completely clearly presented
You would have to read a bunch of Peter Moon books and perhaps Jose Arguelles as well as others to even start to comprehend what is possible let alone suspect what might be probable
but the sales of instructions on how to access Zuvuya surfing and even government wannabes
I doubt
have ever put any "other Earth" in much danger of being invaded by settlers in droves from this one

That said
it is my opinion
that some have already
transitioned
and for good reasons too

however
as per your question
I do believe our earth itself
may be in the process
of transitioning away from the inhabitants it has
to a better collection
for good reasons

Answer 6

There are no planets in our solar system currently capable of sustaining life. A few moons of Jupiter and Saturn might be able to hold life but we have only landed rovers on Mars, let alone set foot on another planet. The cost of such operations is too high and risky to be sending people out far into space.

Seeing how the closest star to us is 4.2 light years away, which means it takes 4.2 years for something traveling the speed of light to travel that distance. It is physically impossible for us to travel anywhere close to that speed. The only way would be to find a wormhole that would theoretically allow us to travel to another solar system.

In thousands of years from now, this planet probably will not be able to support life itself. The human race will probably be long gone. We will never make it off this planet because we really don't have anywhere to go.

Answer 7

Yes, there will come a time that people who can afford to transfer from planet earth to another planet. Because the earth is already over populated and 15-20 years from now, there will be more population explosion to happen.

Answer 8

If we survive ourselves (we are a very self destructive species), then we will have no choice but to move on... We have stripped this planet of most of its resources besides how many more humans can this planet sustain?

The answer is obvious.. if we have to survive, we'd have to find more Earth-like planets to sustain us.

Answer 9

None at all. There is no technology that would last the thousands of years to get to such a place assuming it could be found. The chance of finding one with the right gravity, water, sunlight and oxygen are vanishingly small.

Answer 10

It may be possible, if and only if we have a spaceship that can travel billions of miles away from out planet. And I hope our descendants will luckily ride on that.