Will Humans One Day Live on a Different Planet?

Species of living things that have ever lived on our miraculous planet. more than 99 percent it disappeared. Moreover, new species are frequently added to the list; The living life on our planet is being exhausted even if we don’t realize it in the hustle and bustle of daily life.

who thinks the world belongs only to him and the fact that living things are in such extinction For the human species, which does not think about what it means for itself, this data often goes no further than a sigh like ‘it’s a pity, this animal is also extinct’. However, the fact that species are disappearing from our planet one by one gives us a great message; We could be the next species.

If this is our escape ticket from the scenario starting from scratch on a different planetis seen as making a completely different planet our home. Alright Will humanity be able to achieve this? Will we be able to live on a different planet one day? What does science say about this, what does it point to? The ‘Science or Fiction?’ Let’s take a look at the details of our search for a new home together in the new content of our series.

Making another planet the home of our species:

For 10 years from now, it is no longer difficult to imagine a scenario where an astronaut who went to Mars with SpaceX’s Starship rocket sends us a photo from there. Although its time is insignificant, it is used for scientific studies. a person who sets foot on a different planet It’s a thought we’ve already accepted. But it should be noted that in this article we are not doing anything of the sort; another planet making it the new home of our species Let’s examine his idea.

Now, let’s summarize what we need to know in order to answer this question; us first a planet in close proximity on which we can live and reach required. After finding this planet, it’s time to develop technologies that will allow us to settle on the planet, and move to our new home using those technologies. Of course, while the planet in terms of resources depending on what state it is in, we will also have to deal with a lot of resources that we need to take with us.

We have a scenario in which we can do these in general terms. Alright how possible? How close have we come to realizing this scenario so far? That’s where things change a bit.

Let’s start with the first step: Is there a planet we think we can live on that we can reach?

At the point we have reached as humanity, our technology has not yet Even if we travel through our Solar System It doesn’t fully allow. We are sending unmanned spacecraft to different planets, yes, but we are still in the early stages of manned space travel. That being the case, Planets outside the Solar System kind of off-topic for now.

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Michel Mayor very clear about this. According to him, our species will never be able to go to any exoplanet, a planet outside our Solar System, no matter what it does. The reason for this is the time it takes to travel, as you can imagine. As Mayor puts it, the distance to the nearest star outside our solar system is about 70,000 times greater than the distance to Jupiter. “all the stars are virtually inaccessible”. Mayor summarizes the scientific reason for the situation and the solution that seems unlikely at the moment as follows; ”In this case, the physics required to reach the stars, if any, are unknown to us and on the relationship between mass, acceleration, and energy will require a fundamental change in our understanding”.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that Jupiter is about 600 MILLION KM away from our planet. NASA’s spacecraft sent this distance to Jupiter Juno had covered it in exactly 5 years. Of course, it is not difficult to predict that this journey will not be like going on the highway, except for the long journey, and that we will have to proceed on a very shaky route in the space full of asteroids. So you will understand, Things are not easy in our Solar System, either.

Besides all this, we now know a lot about the planets in the Solar System and this information clearly tells us that; planets in our system doesn’t look friendly and there is no planet that suggests we can live, except for one.

As you might guess, this excluded planet Anthem. This is in large part the reason why NASA or SpaceX have their eyes on Mars. Mars, humanity’s footsteps that seem possible with today’s technology and science and makes it logical one planet.

But why? Can’t we go to another planet in the huge Solar System?

Actually, we can go. But We stay where we go. At least the results of the research conducted so far show this. Of course, this ‘we can go’ is only a ‘possible possibility’, but it doesn’t come there anyway.

For example, Jupiter’s gas giant We know that it is and is never suitable for life. Or Venus, for example, is actually much closer to us than Mars and has a surface we can print on. But it’s not very wise to press because on Venus hell heaterupting volcanoes everywhere and high pressure, it seems to us ‘do not mess with me’ says. Mercury is already so close to the Sun that that alone is reason to rule it out. Thus, we have eliminated all planets, at least with our current knowledge. So in conclusion, it makes sense in the short and medium term. Mars is our only option.

So our next home will be Mars?

We tried to briefly answer our first important condition, ‘a planet where we can live and reach’, with the common discourse of numerous scientific studies carried out so far. And during this answer ‘I wonder’ almost all of the options We saw that he was eliminated. Therefore, we will continue with Mars, which is the only logical option we have for now.

Let’s start with Mars by answering the other two conditions. To develop the technology to go to Mars and to bring the necessary resources for life to Mars. Although we cannot say 100 percent for the moment, we can say that we can meet these two very important conditions. At least that that one day it will be possible There are important works.

Here, too, a true Mars lover, devoted his heart to this work. Elon Musk and his ‘space transport’ company SpaceX contribution is enormous. Because at the moment, the most plausible technology that will enable us to ‘move’ to Mars is SpaceX’s transport system, which consists of a spacecraft that will carry humans to Mars and the powerful rocket Super Heavy to launch it. starship. Starship continues to be tested these days. Starship, which has a payload of 100 tons, will be able to take both a very heavy material and people to Mars at the same time.

Starship, initially targeting the Moon, will then set sail for Mars. For now, 2024 is marked for the first unmanned Mars journey with Starship. According to the latest statements made by Elon Musk, manned first Mars voyage It could happen in 2025 or 2026. However, it is useful to take into account that procrastination is quite common in such tasks. In addition, according to Musk’s statements, some of the people who left our planet for the first manned Mars journey were due to ‘unpredictable conditions and unknowns’. will lose his life.

We’ve landed on Mars, what’s next?

Let’s say that day came, the first humans set foot on Mars. What comes next is actually the hard part. Because although our best bet is Mars, the conditions are exactly right on this red and lovely planet. unsuitable for human life.

First, there’s no atmosphere on Mars that could make us take our helmets off and take a deep breath. 96 percent is made up of carbon dioxide. Also, Mars, which is a little farther from the Sun than our planet, is a very cold planet, temperatures depending on the seasons on the planet. -140 degrees to 20 degrees it is changing. Of course, the one that covers everything and renders it ‘out of sight’. dust storms there is.

In other words, although we may one day colonize Mars and start living there, it is not actually living on another planet; in the facilities we built on that planetunder challenging conditions of great distress try to live will be. This is actually our best option. not a very good option is showing.

In conclusion:

Our main question is ‘Will humans ever be able to live on a different planet?’. The answer is technically Although it seems like ‘yes’ We don’t yet know what ongoing research on Mars will reveal to us. NASA is currently working on expanding our horizons on the planet with the spacecraft Perseverance, which reached the surface of Mars this year.

However, these studies are still at the very beginning of the road. Maybe he will learn unexpected things about Mars, maybe he will be on this planet after the first manned Mars mission. to continue our lives as a crowded species. We will realize that it is not very logical and possible. The number of people who want to invest in such a risky project will decrease, Mars will become a planet used for different projects… We don’t know.

At this point, my personal opinion is that it’s biologically of a planet where we cannot naturally live in the conditions that it adapts to and presents. colonized under no circumstances for our species. no permanent home towards.

Going to Mars is exciting, so is searching for traces of ancient life on Mars, trying to figure out what kind of planet it will turn into in the future, looking for and finding signs of life on it. But to her ‘our new home’ To what extent it is possible, I am not sure. Maybe with the opportunities that the technology that has developed over the years will offer us. Mars would only be a stop over to our original new home.

Meanwhile, our true home in which we evolved If only we could work with the same enthusiasm and consciousness to save the world.Maybe in the future we wouldn’t need to look for a new home and we would go to Mars to do scientific research or watch the sunset. But as I said at the beginning of the article, unfortunately our planet is dying and I think that limit where we can’t do anything We are about to pass now.