Do you think we will ever have cities on other planets? Maybe the moon or even Mars or Venus since they are the closest. That would be so amazing lol would be like The Jaunt!
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Only if we can first discover intelligent life here on earth. 
Having someone live on the moon for any extended length of time would end up being a life sentence to the place. You take isolation from earth pathogens so there's no immunities built up, the bone density and muscle loss from being in such a low-gravity environment, and they simply couldn't come back, particularly if they had kids (although I expect kids could grow to be pretty tall there).
I think we'll have stations on our moon and other planets, but it's many years into the future, absent some dramatic twist in human exploration. For cities, I think we'll have to wait longer. The planet with the nearest gravity to our own is Venus, and with its heat and sulphuric rain, it's way too inhospitable, unless there was some serious terraforming going on that's hard to imagine right now.
But it's neat to think about. Would we care to have a colony on the moon that could only live on the moon, or in spaceships, or on other low-gravity places, such as other moons? Callisto, here we come.
I think we'll have stations on our moon and other planets, but it's many years into the future, absent some dramatic twist in human exploration. For cities, I think we'll have to wait longer. The planet with the nearest gravity to our own is Venus, and with its heat and sulphuric rain, it's way too inhospitable, unless there was some serious terraforming going on that's hard to imagine right now.
But it's neat to think about. Would we care to have a colony on the moon that could only live on the moon, or in spaceships, or on other low-gravity places, such as other moons? Callisto, here we come.
...not in my lifetime...but someday, I pray we do AND I also pray we don't fu*k it up like we did this one...
Looks like we have no other choice. Experts estimate that the earth’s sustainable human population is around 2 billion people. The wold population is currently 7.2 billion people. By 2050 it will be over 9 billion, and 30 years later over 10 billion. Humanity currently consumes resources at a rate 50% faster than the earth can produce them.
According to Stephen Hawking, humanity will only be able to survive on earth for about 1,000 more years.
So if we don’t have major natural catastrophes, massive wars, diseases or viruses that will greatly reduce human populations, we better forcibly curtail human births to draconian levels in short order... if we can’t find a way to leave earth.
But nature has a way of balancing things out. It’s just more complicated with humans. Luckily we are an inherent violent species, and if we can’t find a way to colonize other planets or moons we’ll just kill each other off to a sustainable level.
Now that would make for a good Stephen King novel, eh?
According to Stephen Hawking, humanity will only be able to survive on earth for about 1,000 more years.
So if we don’t have major natural catastrophes, massive wars, diseases or viruses that will greatly reduce human populations, we better forcibly curtail human births to draconian levels in short order... if we can’t find a way to leave earth.
But nature has a way of balancing things out. It’s just more complicated with humans. Luckily we are an inherent violent species, and if we can’t find a way to colonize other planets or moons we’ll just kill each other off to a sustainable level.
Now that would make for a good Stephen King novel, eh?
Let's make our own planets, just as we made our own gods.
^ Shiznit...on what channel am I missing something?
Edit: Ok, I wiki'd, have not seen it. Yet.
Edit: Ok, I wiki'd, have not seen it. Yet.
It's not bad... not as good as something with more real science but fun to watch when there's nothing else on tv and you have to run from the den screaming because your spouse is watching reruns of Pawn Stars.
Yes, we will, although likely they will be under the surface of whatever body we inhabit. There's a lot of hostile radiation out there.
Defiance anyone (on Syfy)? Upcoming Season 2, looks interesting...Sheemiee?
Yes it is. Much easier to swallow when it's in a fictions King novel rather than the unfortunate reality of things.That's scary
Defiance anyone (on Syfy)? Upcoming Season 2, looks interesting...Sheemiee?
I had taped season one without watching. I was afraid to get interested in something that might be cancelled after just one season y'know? I watched all the episodes last week after finding out there would be a season two. I like it
I can't wait for season two I haven't read the Dark Tower books so I'm not catching your Sheemie comment