Living on Another Planet Population is constantly growing and pollution gets worse and worse each day, making the world not as habitable and substandard. Earth is a green place, filled with brilliant vegetation, but with the recurring pollution and degrading of the environment, there is no say in how long it will survive. That being said, humans may need to migrate to other planets outside of The Milky Way Galaxy. Confirmed as sustainable in 2011, Kepler-22b is a habitable planet for many reasons. According to National Geographic, “Kepler-22b has a surface that is not too hot and not too cold for water” (Khan). Although, NASA.gov states that “it is still unknown whether the surface of the planet is rocky, gaseous, or liquid” (Nasa.gov). About …show more content…
For life to be feasible, humans need to adapt to this environment and surrounding areas, which take many decades. If an area is too different than the one the organism derives from, surviving in that specific region would be quite harsh. Kepler-22b has it’s own star it revolves around, similar to The Milky Way’s sun. This “Sun” is similar in mass to The Milky Way’s Sun, and is about twenty-five percent less bright (Solarsystemquick.com). Kepler-22b is about four times larger than Earth, making the mass higher and the circumference larger. Itl revolves around it’s Sun in about two hundred and ninety days. If too much energy comes to Kepler-22b, then a runaway greenhouse effect could happen and the surface would become scorching and unlivable for anyone (Solarsystemquick.com). If this were to happen, it would be almost similar to the temperatures on Venus, about eight hundred and sixty four degrees fahrenheit (Redd). If any of these points were to change, then organisms would not be able to survive on Kepler-22b. Humans rely on the environment surrounding them, so if it is too different than what the organisms are used to, it would be …show more content…
With about nine or ten billion people, multiple space shuttles would be needed. This way of transportation costs about four hundred and fifty million dollars. Shuttling out may be the best option for survival, but it’s very pricy and is in no way simple to perform (Austen). Once the organisms arrive, they will see the vast difference between that and Earth. Life would be extremely different to life on this planet because no modern technology would be able to be transferred. Medicine would expire and many deaths would occur, causing natural selection. If Kepler-22b turns out to be a water world, which is very well possible, oceans will be deeper than that on Earth (Howell). The organisms on this planet would need to build everything so it can float. Jobs would all have to take place in the air or water. Relying on their “Sun” is a key point as well because as previously stated, electricity and energy would not be able to travel with the organisms, so light would come directly from their “Sun”. must be placed on top in order for civilization to begin. According to the online newspaper, Telegraph, “there are three planets surrounding Kepler-22b, and they could possibly be populated by organisms in the future” (Nasa Discovers ‘New Earth’ Kepler-22b). Travel and expenses are a struggle, but when worst comes to worst and death is
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Have you ever looked up into the night skies and wondered what might be out there? One question I always wonder is where in the universe might there be a livable planet? Well the answer might be closer than you think, well actually 588 million kilometers away from earth. Jupiter of course is what I’m talking about. Fell first let’s ask the why we might move. Let’s face it earth is not going to be able to be habitable forever in fact ate the rate humans are polluting the atmosphere earth won’t be around that much longer. So might need a new place to live. So could the answer be Jupiter? Before that we need to know a little about the new planet and if it’s able to sustain life. Let’s start with the Jupiter’s history. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter was named after the king of the gods and Roman mythology. The ancient Greeks named the planet after Zeus, the king of the Greek pantheon. In 1610, a man that goes by the name “Galileo Galilei” was looking through his homemade telescope when he came across Jupiter. He notice four objects circling Jupiter and described them as "four fixed stars, totally invisible by their smallness" it was there were he discovered four large moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, which underwent several name change but are now known as the Galilean moons. This was the first time celestial bodies were seen circling an object other then Earth. Jupiter spins faster than any other planet, taking 10 hours to complete a turn on its axis, compared to that of 24 hours for Earth. This rapid spin makes Jupiter bulge at the equator and flatten at the poles, making the planet about 7 percent wider at the equator than at the poles. This is Jupiter and this is Jupiter next to the earth. Jup...
Jupiter’s moons may support life, and an extremophile called Spinoloricus Cinziae can survive no oxygen. It is also possible that Jupiter’s moon Io could support an extremophile that we do not know. Hyperthermophiles possibly could live on Venus. It also might be possible that life could exist in the clouds. Europa can support life. Psychrophiles could survive on Europa because they can withstand temperatures down to -15 degrees Celsius. Saturn can not support life, but its moons might. Enceladus has oceans. It is possible to sustain Thermococcus microbe. Bacteria have been found on Mars. Psychrophiles may not be able to survive on Eris because of its freezing temperatures, although it might be able to withstand it because of its atmosphere.
As technology advances on Earth, increased standards of living and life expectancy have taken a toll on Earth’s fleeting, finite resources. Kepler potentially provides scientists with information regarding planets that can serve as a future home when resources have diminished and information that can foreshadow inevitabilities about Earth through older, Earth-like planets. Kepler’s primary mission is to discover extrasolar planets within a habitable zone that have sizes relatively similar to that of Earth’s. Previous planetary research detected giant planets that were much more massive than Earth. In addition to detection, Kepler is designed to examine the planets and stars that reside in the Earth-like planet’s system.
As a country we need to start investing more money and research into space technology. Programs currently exist for this effort, but the potential for research and progress is limited by a lack of funding; compared to other government funded programs, aerospace funding is pitiful. Continued research in space technology is a necessary step in our growth and development not just as a country but also as entire human race. If we are to achieve this goal, it is necessary to increase funding for space research and technology and consider the possibility of colonizing outer space. If we limit our existence to the planet Earth, and continue to drain the resources on this planet, we will destroy the only home we have.
It is without a doubt that the most fascinating thing about space is the possibility of life elsewhere beside Earth. It is estimated that the Milky Way Galaxy itself contains about 300 billion stars. Each star contains planets and some planets might even have moons. With these findings, the question is no longer whether life exists elsewhere. The probability that Earth is the only place where life exists in the universe is far too slim. NASA has identified many planets that have similar conditions to Earth but most of these planets are hundreds of light years away so traveling there to find out if there’s any living organism is not easy. Luckily, scientific evidences have pointed out that one of the moons of Jupiter, Europa, could be one of the places where life can exist. If the theories proposed by astronomers about Europa are true, life on Europa might not even be entirely different than life near the bottom of Earth’s oceans.
With all the problems we have on earth and how much we don’t know about our own planet we shouldn’t be colonizing others. We may have the science but we don’t have the funds. We also have tons of willing people but not enough physically and mentally able to colonize a planet. Children are starving all around the world, People are homeless, and wars are starting. Humankind needs to achieve some sort of world peace before trying to explore space. Also, humans will end up destroying life if we try to colonize an
Earth has served as a good home for humans for many years, and will most likely
Space, the final frontier. Our future as a species points towards space, throughout the years man has looked to the stars, the future holds countless technologies that will help us exploit and traverse them. We are already testing edible plant growth in a zero G environment. Every day we are closer to developing a functional warp drive, thanks to the Alcubierre theory. Space is even a source of limitless power and energy. Why change the planet, when we can just find another?
Core/Interior: The Earth has three layers to it's interior, the inner core, outer core, and mantle. Of these the outer core is thought to be liquid. Like most of the terrestrial planets at birth, the Earth has been molten and undergone some differentiation allowing the heavy material which is consisting mostly of an iron, nickel, and cobalt core making it's density five and a half times the density of water.
The planets are like world and the moon. At first, there was life only on Urras, which has really good and fertile soil. Unfortunately, there was a capitalist system which gave people only what they deserved. There is an hierarchy and the more you work or the important your job gets, the higher wage or the more prestigious you get among your society. And there was the satellite
This would mean that, on Earth, water would be a gas all of the time and life would not be
Not only that, but our population has been growing at an extremely alarming rate. At our current rate, our species may not be able to survive for much longer. This is where space exploration comes in. With the recent discovery of water on Mars, and the finding of Kepler-78b, it is possible that mankind can prolong our existence. The possibility of interstellar travel seems to be an option, or even a necessity, if we wish to continue living.
Mars is a very similar planet to earth in relation to size and atmosphere. Therefore it seemed like the most likely place to search for life. At the end of the 19th century, an American named Percival Lowell built himself an observatory so that it was possible for him to study Mars in intimate detail when its orbit was closest to Earth. At this time it had recently been suggested that the planet had a system of channels on the surface, present from the evaporation of flowing water. Looking through his telescope Lowell became convinced he could see a network of artificial canals. This led him to believe that there were intelligent beings on Mars who had built these canals. However, spacecraft have now visited Mars and found that there is no evidence of water at all. It is now thought that the lines he could see were the combination of Lowell's overactive imagination, and scratches on the lens of his telescope. We are now searching one of Jupiter's moons, Europa, as this seems to be the next likely place to hold life.