• Question: When in the future will we be able to live on different planets?

    Asked by anon-174272 to Yewande, Tim, Melanie, Hayley, Carl, Alex on 13 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 13 Jun 2018:

      That’s a difficult question. We would need a stable and reliable atmosphere on another planet to enable us to survive and produce the food and water we need to live. I would think that’s still quite a few years away from happening, though some scientists have suggested that we could have some sort of colonisation on Mars by 2030. I’m not sure how likely that is to actually happen though!

    • Photo: Tim Craig

      Tim Craig answered on 14 Jun 2018:

      Its hard to know the answer to this. There are a lot of barriers we would need to overcome, which make it impossible at present. But who knows where science may take us?

    • Photo: Carl Barford

      Carl Barford answered on 18 Jun 2018:

      Yes, but physics tells us there is a huge effort required to move things around. We need better rockets / propulsion systems first

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