i feel, as a species, we are meant for more than we are giving ourselves. We have the technology. The planet is becoming over populated each day. i feel it is time to colonize in space. Be it on the moon, Mars, or space station. For the moon, life would be different for sure. SO little gravity, but things could be benefiicial aswell. Imagine those people that can't medically lose weight, for one reason or another. They could easily move around on the moon. And as for Mars, such mining potential. Ever seen that movie with Polly Shore in it? Bio-Dome. Simply using that movie alone as inspiration, we could build an ecosystem on Mars. Have domes sanctioned off for plants, bugs, other life. HAve parts for people. Fish, etc. Eventually the moisture and bacteria would seep into the ground and slowly but surely, teraform Mars. 


So, my question is, what if we lived in space? What could you see life being like?

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I think they might be life in space, we just don't know right now, I know out technology is getting more advance and advance, but as of this point, we can't find any on the Moon or Mars, but we will soon find life on other planets. We don't know on when this will happen, but it will be pretty soon with the path of the technology is going.

Darthdaishi : That would be so cool to be able to live on the moon but I think it's gonna take a long time before we'll be able to live on the moon or on another planet.

I see no reason why not really. Only thing stopping us is politics. With the population split up on other planets, it would mean double the living space and double the work. I am not talking Star Trek right off the bat, but it is doable. 

We're still many years away from this becoming practical. It costs a LOT of money to blast off one ship. To inhabit any place in space, we're going to need to develop a better way of getting there. There's also the living quality. Right now, astronauts have to live on the bare minimum while in space. Nobody wants to live like that their whole life. We still have a lot of work to do.

Well, you have to start somewhere. As for the living conditions, they can be made to adapt to the environment. Humans are very adaptable creatures. It is true that it costs a lot to enter space. Once we discover a better way to do this, life in space can be made possible I agree. How ever, once a small colony is established on either the moon or on Mars, they can work towards being self reliant. It would be the same way as when America was first colonized. True the environment would be different, and they would was a whole new set of challenges. But isn't that the whole point of exploration? Beating the odds. Doing what no one else would dare do. Leave behind the life of luxury and do something different.

I think it's both a possibility and that we should keep investing billions in order to see it happen.

I recently listened to a video of a well-known scientist. He described how when the electron, neutron, and proton were first being researched, the claim that there's no immediate benefit to researching them kept coming up. Luckily we didn't stop, as modern day computers only arose through that research.

Similarly, developing technologies to make space more explorable and habitable may seem to have little benefit in the short term, but in the long-term I expect it to have lasting repercussions. (Two of which include asteroid mining and enforcement of fair space laws)

I know it'll happen someday. There's no way we can all live on Earth for so long. Eventually we would reproduce so much we wouldn't be able to fit more people if we never found a way to have life somewhere else. I've never really seen why we can't have plants or anything on the moon. Could someone explain it to me? Shouldn't we just need to bring dirt, seeds, and water to the moon and place the dirt down, plant the seeds and water it? I know there isn't much gravity, but I assume there's some way of doing this. Eventually, if we worked off of this theory, then we could have enough trees to produce oxygen to breathe. Then we could ditch the space suits and just live off of air produced from the trees. That would take a long time to grow the trees, but it would DEFINITELY be worth it if it was possible.

When I first saw the title, I thought it was going to be a question about whether we thought aliens existed or not. I think aliens do exist and if you don't think there are other beings somewhere in this universe you're being ignorant. Thinking partly from a scientific train of thought, if God exists, why would he just make creatures on one planet? There has to be another place in this universe where there are living beings that can talk in their own languages and live their own lives. Even if they can't do that, there have to be some bacteria somewhere in space that would eventually evolve into some other sort of creature. I'm not sure how the other creatures' attitudes would be about knowing there was another world inhabited by living beings, but I do know (or at least think) there are other beings out there.

Finding a way to have life on another planet/world is something we really need to figure out how to do. If we can figure out that much, we wouldn't need to care so much about space on earth. I do know there would be a lot of problems to go with this however, like who would own the whole world/which nation would own which parts. Honestly, if everyone could live without having one leader that would be nice .

Anyway, I hope someone can tell me why my theory isn't possible... Peace .

  It may happen on a limited scale in our lifetimes, but there are a lot of logistics to overcome. For one thing, living in low gravity is detrimental to your health and potentially fatal. Astronauts who stay in space for extended periods suffer when they return to the planet because human physiology isn't designed for that. This would also happen if you spent an extended period of time in a lower gravity environment(ie-the Moon, Mars) There are a ton of bad effects that go beyond simple muscle atrophy and include a compromised immune system. Another big obstacle is radiation. Outside of the Earth's protective belts spacecraft get bombarded with high-energy particles. The Moon or Mars afford no such protection as they do not possess a spinning core of molten iron that produces a magnetic shield like Earth does. The Apollo astronauts were lucky because they could have been fried by a random solar flare and there were near-misses while they were out there. The first thing I think we need is an orbital platform for launching because we use SO MUCH rocket fuel to lift-off from Earth. Someday we will though, if humans can ever stop wasting so many resources fighting over land.

 

  On the brighter side, in July the New Horizons probe does it's fly-by of Pluto. THAT is exciting. I was just a kid when Voyager 2 did it's tour of the gas giants and in a few short months we'll have actual close-up photos of the 9th(yes, 9th) planet and it's moons.  



MCJunglekitty- about the Moon, among other things, there's not enough gravity to hold an atmosphere there, and it's really cold.

LOL... politics are certainly NOT the only thing keeping this from happening!  

You do realize that people WOULD gain weight on the moon, right?  They simply wouldn't do it at the same rate.  There is gravity on the moon... it's just nothing like earth's gravity at all.

Also creating domes and what not would cost so incredibly much.  It'd cost a lot to build, and it'd cost even more (in the long run) to maintain.  Imagine starting such a project, running it for ten years, and then suddenly not having the money for its upkeep.  Since nothing disastrous would be allowed to happen (hopefully), some government(s) would be left in an awfully huge financial dilemma.

I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I'm just not sure how realistic all of it is.  I think it's tough for especially us Christians to believe... but I won't get into Revelations here.

Ferdinand :  Now I can't wait till July, to be able to see in detail how Pluto and its partner is would be simply awesome.

Darthdaishi : You won't have to wait a lot longer for photos I don't think. As of now it's beginning it's "approach" and will soon be able to produce images that rival the Hubble Telescope. It really is a once-an-a-lifetime event, it will come within 6,000 miles of the planet. After travelling a few billion. Pretty impressive engineering. (for humans) :p

That my friend is simply awesome. Truly.