Topic: Colonising Planets - page 6. (Read 3748 times)
Yes, and i think we will have a colony on the moon and on mars sooner than many of us think.. it will be small at first, but a colony still.
The colonization of other planets will not be in this century. There are many places on our planet that need to be explored, mastered and colonized. Today, space is not a priority.
Mans conquest of the heavens is inevitable. 200 years ago we had steam powered engines, telephones, and a bicycle. Today we have rocket ships, cellular smart phones, and atomic energy.
Colonizing other planets isn't a matter of "if", but a matter of "when"! We only seem to account for the technology we know is readily available at the general publics discretion. You can be sure, some laboratory somewhere, is concocting some new marvel of science as we speak, but haven't quite worked all the kinks out yet. Just think about the EM-drive, a supposedly impossible engine Nasa built.
I hope for humanities sake, we don't bring too many of our egotistical flaws with us into space, I hope we build a successful enterprise like that of Star Treks. Different diversities working together for a single cause. Maybe we will leave our animosity behind us, and adopt a new tenure, built upon equality, honor, and valor. Look out Buck Rogers!
Colonizing other planets isn't a matter of "if", but a matter of "when"! We only seem to account for the technology we know is readily available at the general publics discretion. You can be sure, some laboratory somewhere, is concocting some new marvel of science as we speak, but haven't quite worked all the kinks out yet. Just think about the EM-drive, a supposedly impossible engine Nasa built.
I hope for humanities sake, we don't bring too many of our egotistical flaws with us into space, I hope we build a successful enterprise like that of Star Treks. Different diversities working together for a single cause. Maybe we will leave our animosity behind us, and adopt a new tenure, built upon equality, honor, and valor. Look out Buck Rogers!
Do you think humanity will ever create colonies on the other planets (not just couple of trained astronauts but a civilian population in a city or something similar) and depending on your opinion why not / where and when do you think they're likely to be created first?... also will the frontier of colonising be in our own solar system on Mars for example or on some exoplanet
It's possible ,i believe scientists can do that , although there are many difficulties
I think for a long time people will not be able to colonize any planet in the Universe. We need a very good technology that people have yet.
it is very difficult to predict what major scientific breakthroughs are coming our way.
if I had to bet it safe, I would say that we might not witness it ourselves.
maybe our children will.
Do you think humanity will ever create colonies on the other planets (not just couple of trained astronauts but a civilian population in a city or something similar) and depending on your opinion why not / where and when do you think they're likely to be created first?... also will the frontier of colonising be in our own solar system on Mars for example or on some exoplanet
It is highly possible as the deterioration we made to our planet over the pas decades has been gone faster ever since the industrial era started but these activity will happen only if we can make a ship and technology that can keep our bodies fresh and young since traveling in the space will surely take sometime plus the energy that will be used for transportation.
We may kill our planet much sooner than being consumed by the sun. 
5 billion years is almost an infinite number for the human race.
5 billion years is almost an infinite number for the human race.You are right. Forget about 5 billion years, we may not even survive for another 100 years, at this rate. Almost 1% of the forests are being cut down annually and the human population is increasing at a rate of around 1.5% per year. Populations with high IQ (Koreans, Chinese, Europeans.etc) are declining in number and low IQ people (Arabs, Africans.etc) are increasing their population.
We don't have a choice.
We have to become a space-faring species if we want to survive.
The sun is expanding and will consume the earth, but before that the 'habitable zone' where surface water exists, will have moved further out from Earth.
We may kill our planet much sooner than being consumed by the sun. We have to become a space-faring species if we want to survive.
The sun is expanding and will consume the earth, but before that the 'habitable zone' where surface water exists, will have moved further out from Earth.
5 billion years is almost an infinite number for the human race.
At this rate of growth technology is capable of making this possible in a couple of centuries imo... Experiments on Mars may happen earlier but it's just scientific purpose.
We don't have a choice.
We have to become a space-faring species if we want to survive.
The sun is expanding and will consume the earth, but before that the 'habitable zone' where surface water exists, will have moved further out from Earth.
We have to become a space-faring species if we want to survive.
The sun is expanding and will consume the earth, but before that the 'habitable zone' where surface water exists, will have moved further out from Earth.
Elon Musk is a fraud and a cheater. He is completely useless and he never delivers on his promises. If anyone is going to colonize Mars, I can assure you that it is not going to be Elon Musk. He is just empty talk and no action. He is only interested in fleecing money from his unsuspectful investors.
What can you say to the fact that he changed the concept of a vehicle to the electromobile in the whole world? Instead if wasting all these money in the attempt of colonizing other planets, why don't we just make the one that we currently have more habitable for everyone and stop pollution the only world that we have. Clearly the mars mission is not going to work .
'cause the most powerful and richest men won't stop their production here so easily.
If the exploitation of our planet remains at the same level as now, the colonization of others will become inevitable. As in "Interstellar".
Elon Musk has us covered in planet colonisation.. Those trained austronauts he will send will be the colonisers, they will create families on mars.. They wont come back to earth, but they will try to create a new earth.
P.S. It is not certain that they will succeed, and once they are out there, there is no turning back.. Isn't it scary. Imagine the scenarios.
P.S. It is not certain that they will succeed, and once they are out there, there is no turning back.. Isn't it scary. Imagine the scenarios.
Elon Musk is a fraud and a cheater. He is completely useless and he never delivers on his promises. If anyone is going to colonize Mars, I can assure you that it is not going to be Elon Musk. He is just empty talk and no action. He is only interested in fleecing money from his unsuspectful investors.
It is all about survival, no matter what we do , there will be some point in future where we will regress (technologically) or culturally(wars divisions etc). If we don do it fast we(the humans) will be doomed. Thanks God, we have Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
First step will be a base on the moon. Then we'll be on mars. Then, with new technologies, mankind will reach other galaxies. But this will take more than 5 generations.
What is also interesting, is colonising moons of other planets in our solar system.
What is also interesting, is colonising moons of other planets in our solar system.
This will eventually be possible, but not in a very near future. Stll too many technological problems to solve first. The first and foremost is that planets beyond our solar system are for the moment totally out of our reach.
Definitely that is a major issue. For example, let's say that an exoplanet is 1,000 light years away from earth. How is it even possible to travel to that planet, given that we can never achieve the speed of light? Right now we are able to travel at around 1/10,000th of the speed of light, and at that rate, it will take 10 million years to reach this planet.
it has always been a big question for me why we need to spend so much effort and money to create life on other planets and why we don't spend as much effort to support the life of this planet?
The only reason to colonising any planet of Sol system with modern level of technology - it's creation of "second Earth" if Terra will be destroy. 
This will eventually be possible, but not in a very near future. Stll too many technological problems to solve first. The first and foremost is that planets beyond our solar system are for the moment totally out of our reach.
it has always been a big question for me why we need to spend so much effort and money to create life on other planets and why we don't spend as much effort to support the life of this planet?Jump to: