• Question: hi im from cardinal wiseman and my question is could we ever live on another plant if the world ends

    Asked by jemima1erin2 to Ed, Hayley, Jason, Nathan, Sophie on 19 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jason King

      Jason King answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      Possibly. the problem is that most of the nearby planets aren’t very good for us so we won’t be able to just walk around outside. There is lots of research though on how we can build places where we can survive continuously, by growing plants to make oxygen and recycling everything. They are currently building a tester station in a desert somewhere to see if people can survive completely independently for a year!

    • Photo: Hayley Evers-King

      Hayley Evers-King answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      A big problem is getting to another planet. Even the nearby ones that might have some potential if you could build a life support system – i.e. Mars, are still quite faraway, so transporting lots of building materials and people would take a long time. NASA have recently announced some research being done on fast space travel though (like you see in Star Wars and Star Trek!) so maybe in the future this won’t be so much of a problem!

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