Colonies on Other Planets Isaiah Dokus 1/12/2017 The Earth is deteriorating, and growing faster by the day. We are using up our natural resources faster than I can type this sentence. Eventually, we may need to move. Not to another oil drilling site, but to a completely different planet. Our knowledge of space travel and other technologies is quickly progressing. So we may have a chance on a new world. Other “habitable” planets have been found. The two most discussed are called KOI 326.01 and Kepler 438b. There are quotes around the word habitable because habitable doesn't necessarily mean perfectly livable. Habitable means that it is in the Goldilocks Zone, and has sufficient gravity. A habitable planet could be very small, partly gaseous,
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A recently released movie called Passengers, where an enormous starship is carrying millions of passengers to colonize another livable planet. The ship’s technology is very impressive. So far, our technology has only put humans on one other terrestrial place, the Moon. In the movie, people are put in a sleep-like trance that lifts when they reach their destination. This could have ups and downs. If we are all asleep when we are traveling, the travel would seem instantaneous, but unless our artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and not interested in hurting humans, some people would need to be awake in case of an emergency that robots can’t solve. If you search “Colonizing Other Planets” on google images, many of the pictures show a glass or metal dome in which we would live. A dome like this would probably regulate temperature, pressure, and maybe gravity too. If humans learn to integrate organic material into technology to create things that no machine could do, like filter the carbon dioxide back into air, than creating these Bio-Domes would be much more efficient. The other main image that appears is a type of bunker to house plants that can’t handle the too much or too little amount of sun, depending on where it’s located on the …show more content…
Very close to Earth, relative to KOI 326.01 and Kepler 438b. Robots? No problem! Just load them into a small rocket and let them loose. Humans? That’s a different story. Us humans need food. And water. And our ecosystem. And room to stretch. And of course our human “”necessities”, like toothpaste. Or spare clothes. And we need to bring them back, so spare parts and extra rocket fuel too. With all of this stuff, times the number of crew members, and you have a rather heavy hunk of materials that you need to send past low earth orbit, which is the minimum speed an object needs to go to leave earth’s orbit. We would also need an aerodynamic rocked that can go faster than 28,080 kilometers per hour. I we were to colonize an unhabitable planet, we would need sufficient space suits. Our traditional space suit is extremely bulky, and if you fall, you fall. You need help from others to put it on and take it off. Hopefully, the space suits of the future will eliminate those problems. They have been designed to be flexible, somewhat skintight, and with better dexterity for the fingers so people can operate control panels for airlocks and other things of the
A recently released movie called Passengers, where an enormous starship is carrying millions of passengers to colonize another livable planet. The ship’s technology is very impressive. So far, our technology has only put humans on one other terrestrial place, the Moon. In the movie, people are put in a sleep-like trance that lifts when they reach their destination. This could have ups and downs. If we are all asleep when we are traveling, the travel would seem instantaneous, but unless our artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and not interested in hurting humans, some people would need to be awake in case of an emergency that robots can’t solve. If you search “Colonizing Other Planets” on google images, many of the pictures show a glass or metal dome in which we would live. A dome like this would probably regulate temperature, pressure, and maybe gravity too. If humans learn to integrate organic material into technology to create things that no machine could do, like filter the carbon dioxide back into air, than creating these Bio-Domes would be much more efficient. The other main image that appears is a type of bunker to house plants that can’t handle the too much or too little amount of sun, depending on where it’s located on the …show more content…
Very close to Earth, relative to KOI 326.01 and Kepler 438b. Robots? No problem! Just load them into a small rocket and let them loose. Humans? That’s a different story. Us humans need food. And water. And our ecosystem. And room to stretch. And of course our human “”necessities”, like toothpaste. Or spare clothes. And we need to bring them back, so spare parts and extra rocket fuel too. With all of this stuff, times the number of crew members, and you have a rather heavy hunk of materials that you need to send past low earth orbit, which is the minimum speed an object needs to go to leave earth’s orbit. We would also need an aerodynamic rocked that can go faster than 28,080 kilometers per hour. I we were to colonize an unhabitable planet, we would need sufficient space suits. Our traditional space suit is extremely bulky, and if you fall, you fall. You need help from others to put it on and take it off. Hopefully, the space suits of the future will eliminate those problems. They have been designed to be flexible, somewhat skintight, and with better dexterity for the fingers so people can operate control panels for airlocks and other things of the