• Question: What year do you think man will be living on the moon/planets?

    Asked by 0BlackHole0 to Andy, Chris, Harriet, Jess, Nikki on 9 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: andy chapman

      andy chapman answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      I don’t think we will. There is still loads of space on earth and it has to be easier to make remote places on earth more habitable than ones in space

    • Photo: Jessica Groppi

      Jessica Groppi answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hi!

      That would be cool, but maybe just for holidays! Have an holiday resort on Mars and go there to visit the planet.

      Joking aside, I agree with Andy: there’s still plenty of space on earth.

      Maybe in a far far future, they will discover a planet similar to earth somewhere in the galaxy and when resources finish on earth, humans will move to the new planet.

      Jess.

    • Photo: Christopher Blanford

      Christopher Blanford answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hey again, 0BlackHole0

      I think it’s important that we spread ourselves more widely. I think we’re looking at the first colonists on other bodies in the solar system (moon and asteroids first, I bet) by about 2030. I think it’s going to be driven by money and personal beliefs, like a lot of the original colonisations. There’s a lot of valuable material in some asteroids! But it also takes a lot of money/fuel/energy to get out of earth’s gravitational well.

      Chris

    • Photo: Nikki D'Arcy

      Nikki D'Arcy answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hi, thanks for the question

      I think it’s along way away yet. It would be cool but I think we should start treating this planet better first before we rush off and colonise a new one! I do think a moon theme park would be a great idea though! I would love to see the Earth from space!!

    • Photo: Harriet Reid

      Harriet Reid answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hi
      I don’t think that we will live on other planets or the moon anytime soon. We are really adapted to life on earth. That said I think that we will go to space more and more, we might end up mining things like astroids for their valuable materials.

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