Should we be trying to find another planet to live on?

Answer 1

No, you won't live long enough to get there. Humans will Terraform Mars before leaving this solar system

Answer 2

If we were to colonise a new planet, there are several issues we'd have to solve first:

1) Finding a planet - There aren't any in this solar system that are of a sufficient distance from the sun.

2) (assuming we can find a planet) Sending some people over to that planet - pioneers if you will, to colonise the planet - This will likely take many years for the pioneers to reach the planet, let alone colonise the planet for population to grow. Let's not forget: spaceship that can ferry a hundred or so pioneers to planet surface = many years of development and many, many millions of $.

3) Transport as many of the planet's residents to the new planet, possibly thousands at a time. With current estimates of global population, (and assuming a single vessel could ship 20000 people), this would take 33000 trips with one vessel, or 3300 trips with 10 vessels. That may mean us little people may be left to die, while they repopulate, which is a much more economic, and realistic choice.

So when you ask "Should we be trying to find another planet to live on?", to that I say "heck, no!", because (1) - We don't have the time and money to find,let alone colonise a planet, and (2) - When it comes to the crunch, only the richest and most "important" in society will be given the chance, while everyone else will probably be left to cope with their mistakes (global warming, famine and 3rd world debt etc.)

Answer 3

The idea of moving elsewhere is not only unreasonable, the consideration of it as a viable alternative gives false hope for the future. Our species might be saved by sending a small contingent to some other world or to a permanent space colony, but that would be only for a very few and their descendants. The billions of others would be left here to suffer the hell created by the folly of their ancestors. It won't be us, in either case. This would not happen for a long, long time.

There is no place, terraformed or otherwise, which presents a feasible alternative to life on this planet. We need to concentrate our efforts on making and keeping THIS WORLD habitable. That is by far the most efficient and affordable plan, and it will do the most good for the greatest number of people.

Not that any more than a handful of people care about the religious arguments on this, but I would challenge "Noah's Ark" to show us where in the bible it says that God won't allow us to destroy our world. That is not what he said in his covenant with Noah. Nor is it stated or implied anywhere else.

Answer 4

We, the species, will certainly be spreading to other planets soon. That is our history; and, though these new worlds be distant and harsh, they will prove no more of a challenge then they did when we first left the Nile River Valley to move into harsh colder climates and across vast and deep oceans. However, history also shows us that emigration happens when things become too painful to remain in place. Those who choose venture to live among the stars will be driven there by oppression, starvation, war, fear, and the hope for a better life.

Answer 5

At this time in order to answer your question, it is necessary to clearly define who "WE" is. Is that, for example, you and your wife? Or is it all of your family? Or everyone in your church?

The quantity of people that you are discussing is highly germain to any answer I might provide.

Also, since there is no habitable planet within our Solar System, I assume you mean another planet "OUTSIDE
OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM" which would be a planet orbiting some star other than our Sun. I think it is beneficial to tell you that the nearest star to Earth is 4.5 Light Years distance from us.

The nearest star is therefore
6 Trillion (Miles per Light Year) times 4.5 = 27 Trillion Miles
away.

Our fastest Space Ship travels at about 50,000 Miles Per Hour.

So the travel time would be

6,000,000,000,000 Miles divided by 50,000 Mph=
120,000,000 Hours
which is
500,000 Days
which is
1,370 Years.

Given the length of that shortest of all possible voyages to the closest possible star (others are much farther away), it would not seem practical to consider moving from your present home, and certainly not feasible to move masses of humanity from here on Earth to a possible planet orbiting the "nearest" star.

Answer 6

We couldn't get to any planet outside teh solar system, so it would have to be one within.

Terraforming Mars is truly a viable scenario (try reading Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson. Someone once said it was like reading a NASA engineering manual. Hoever he discusses is great detail how it might be done (it is still fiction however).

Other possibilities are the satellites of Jupiter or Saturn.

Answer 7

Eventually, we'll probably need to. Even if Earth is still habitable, don't discount the human desire to look for new opportunities, for new worlds to colonize. Just about everyone on the planet has ancestors who did this.
But this won't be remotely practical for a long time, probably for centuries. If you're talking wholesale evacuation from a doomed Earth, that's even further away. We'd better learn to clean up our act on this planet if we're going to survive till then.

Answer 8

No. That is just not an option with our current state of technology. The resources needed to get even a small group of humans to Mars and keep them alive for any length of time are prohibitive. Terraforming is a nice theory, but way beyond anything we could actually do. And that's it - no other suitable planets in even hypothetical reach!

Answer 9

The human race has s**t in its own nest and deserves to rot and die.
We will not have the technology to reach any other planet before we have all suffocated or succumbed to the cancers that our own pollution has engendered.
So relax, the rest of the Universe is safe from the most toxic virus every to evolve, Homo Sapiens, ( which should be reclassified more correctly as Homo Moronicus.)

Answer 10

Don't bother looking for something that doesn't exist...Why does science allways look for answers in the wrong place ? Genesis states that this planet is to become a garden with or without our help... God has never said otherwise .... He will not allow this planet to be destroyed by us or by our stupidity ,,, so relax , that time is allmost upon us...of course wether you'll be here to enjoy it is another question

Answer 11

YES!
Earth Commisioners are killign the planet with global warming.

We need to find a planet suitable for our needs and resoucres.

In around 1000 years we will be a heap of Trash. Fumes. and most of us wil be dieing of a breathing problem.

finding a suitable planet is Crucial. Moving the Population is impossible.