13 Oct '20 21:48>
What would be the logistics of creating a planet?
While Mars currently holds the best prospects for human colonization, it's still wildly unsuitable due too many factors like lack of gravity, radiation, extreme temperatures, etc.
What about making a planet from scratch? Is it completely unreasonable that scientists can figure out a way to construct a core and a custom atmosphere?
For now, let's put aside gathering enough rocks and other material to make a planet. Assuming we could harvest the quintillion tons of material needed to form a planet, do scientists have the knowledge to create one? Obviously, proximity to the sun and other planets will have to be factored. Or, rather than the monumental task of creating an actual planet-sized habitation, of what if we created Pluto or moon-sized planets?
Humans will one day become extinct when the sun expands and then explodes in a supernova. So eventually, this is something humans will may have to consider. It will at least by the human race enough time to figure out interstellar travel, which will also be needed one day to survive.
While Mars currently holds the best prospects for human colonization, it's still wildly unsuitable due too many factors like lack of gravity, radiation, extreme temperatures, etc.
What about making a planet from scratch? Is it completely unreasonable that scientists can figure out a way to construct a core and a custom atmosphere?
For now, let's put aside gathering enough rocks and other material to make a planet. Assuming we could harvest the quintillion tons of material needed to form a planet, do scientists have the knowledge to create one? Obviously, proximity to the sun and other planets will have to be factored. Or, rather than the monumental task of creating an actual planet-sized habitation, of what if we created Pluto or moon-sized planets?
Humans will one day become extinct when the sun expands and then explodes in a supernova. So eventually, this is something humans will may have to consider. It will at least by the human race enough time to figure out interstellar travel, which will also be needed one day to survive.