• Question: do u think that humans couldmove to a new planet

    Asked by ryanh1998 to Martin on 9 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Martin Archer

      Martin Archer answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      I think it’s definitely a possibility, but way way way in the future. At the moment we can’t even send a man to Mars because of the radiation in space and their muscles would get wasted by spending so much time weightless on the way. But hopefully we can come up with new technology to sort these out.

      If we wanted to live for example on Mars we’d need to find a way to make it more habitable for us, like warming it up and providing a breathable atmosphere. There may be planets just like Earth around other stars, we think we’ve found some but don’t know what the air would be like there. They are very far away though! So far we haven’t been able to send anything outside of the solar system yet, Voyager 1 is nearly at the edge of it though.

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