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Asked by anonymous to Pete, Rebecca, SallyB, Sally, Sian on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: General. This question was also asked by diffrentbuthappy, gilly.
Question: do you think that sometime we will be able to travel to other planets like pluto and mars just like traveling in the sky in an aeroplane?
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Peter Styring answered on 17 Jun 2010:
Unfortunately not! The energy required to get there would be too high to make it economically viable. Also the life support systems would need to be very complex. Mars is a possibility for small missions. Pluto is way to far away, you’d be dead before you got there! And Pluto isn’t a planet anymore!
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Sally Fenton answered on 17 Jun 2010:
I’m not sure…the planets are sooo far away and I don’t know if we would be able to invent something to take us there!
However..i would say never say never…hundreds of years ago I bet people did not ever expect we would be able to fly and look at us now! I think if we do manage to do this though it will be hundreds and maybe thousands of years in the furture! we would also have to leanr more about the planets like pluto and mars before we can do this to see what the environment is like on the planet and if it would be possible for humans to visit their and survive!
someone who knows more about this might say I am talking rubbish (i dont know alot about the solar system! :s) but I think it would be really cool if this could happen 🙂
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Rebecca Randell answered on 17 Jun 2010:
Yeah i think in time this will happen.People are already flying to the moon and i think quite soon in the future people are going to go to mars. It may be really expensive to fly.I think i’ll stick to flying to another country in an aeroplane
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Sian Lawson answered on 18 Jun 2010:
Probably, but not in my lifetime. It won’t be just like travelling in a plane now, but it could be as routine to us. There are a few interesting problems to overcome first though.
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Moderator - Craig commented on :
You’d get a lot of air miles!