• Question: Do you think that we will carry on our species to other planets?

    Asked by cheesemeister to Louise, Michaela, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Michaela Livingstone

      Michaela Livingstone answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      It would take A LOT of resources to A find a planet that’s suitable for us to inhabit, and B to get a lot of us there… so I’d say it’s quite unlikely, given the distances involved seeing as none of the planets in our solar seem on the face of it to be suitable to support life, well not complicated organisms such as ourselves, but never say never! Maybe be can change mars to make it inhabitable or build bio-domes?

    • Photo: Yvette Wilson

      Yvette Wilson answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      don’t think so! we have so many environmental requirements to be able to live that it would be difficult to make another planet suitable.

    • Photo: Louise Johnson

      Louise Johnson answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I don’t think it’s likely (although I hope I’m wrong) – most stars seem not to have planets at all, so finding one suitable for humans sounds really unlikely and we have no way of getting there. Maybe there will be new technologies in future that allow us to explore space more quickly, but for the next few million years I reckon we’d be better off looking after the planet we’ve got…

    • Photo: Steven Kiddle

      Steven Kiddle answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I think we should at least try, but i worry sometimes that we don’t try hard enough. If the earth becomes uninhabitable before we do then humans will become extinct, i think that would be very sad.

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