• Question: Do you think humans will colonise other planets?

    Asked by Julius Caesar to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 10 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by toxic waste=sour.
    • Photo: Daniel Parsons

      Daniel Parsons answered on 10 Nov 2014:


      Absolutely yes. I have little doubt that Humans will live one day on Mars – maybe even in your lifetime. The technology is nearly in place for us to be able to do this. I am sure that there are also plenty of other suitable planets in nearby star systems. The problem is getting there without ‘warp-drive’ or similar ‘technologies’ – we simply can’t yet travel fast enough to practically colonise any planets beyond Mars at the moment!

      Would you like to live on Mars?

    • Photo: Arthur Dyer

      Arthur Dyer answered on 10 Nov 2014:


      There’s a mission to send a few people to Mars soon to try to start something like this but it’s a really really long trip and they won’t be able to come back to earth so they’re very brave but going there and trying to set up something that we can live in will teach us so much about our own planet and life on Earth.

      People have lived in the space station (a floating spaceship above earth) for months on end and coped fairly well but they do need deliveries of food from earth every few months.

      Would you want to be one of the first people to travel to Mars (knowing you would not be able to come back) or wait until others had made it more comfy and easier to live in?

    • Photo: Clare Harding

      Clare Harding answered on 10 Nov 2014:


      I think so, but unless a we invent some kind of teleportation it might be a one way trip.

      But I think that some people would volunteer for this and it would be incredible to live on another planet!

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