• Question: is it possible for humans to inhabit extar terestrial enviroment

    Asked by broforce1234 to Alison, Hannah, Jonny, MarthaNari, Paul on 23 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Yolo Swaggins.
    • Photo: Jonny Brooks-Bartlett

      Jonny Brooks-Bartlett answered on 23 Jun 2015:


      This site talks about what it would be like to live on other planets in teh solar system: http://www.space.com/28355-living-on-other-planets.html

      I guess it may be possible one day but it would require us humans to radically adapt our environment somehow and this will take ages to be able to do. Temperatures on Earth are relatively stable as well as the air content. On other planets temperatures can be hotter than an oven during the day and then colder than Antarctica at night. Us humans were not made to survive that. So I don’t really know how it would work.

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      Martha Havenith answered on 24 Jun 2015:


      Hey broforce, in theory yes… but we’d have to take almost everything with us that we need for survival (building materials, oxygen, possibly water and soil depending on where the settlement would be…). Getting all that off planet Earth is already tough to do – it would take either loads of rockets or a new and much better technology for getting out of Earth’s orbit.
      And then we’d have to get pretty much perfect at recycling. For example we would need to recycle water so that we lose none of it while cleaning and filtering it. Same for oxygen. That’s a huge challenge, but I’m sure in a while (my guess would be a century or two if we don’t get distracted by other challenges) it should be possible.

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      Paul Brack answered on 24 Jun 2015:


      We’ve developed to live in our current environment. To go somewhere else we would have to completely reinvent ourselves, or take the environment that we are used to with us. Maybe a way we could use to adapt ourselves would be to make ourselves cyborgs, able to breath carbon dioxide thanks to some machine we’ve installed. Seems a bit fanciful though.

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