• Question: If we found another plant that has a sun orbiting sun around it (like are moon) and has water, (unlikely) and that is further than Pluto. Do yous think we could inhabit the planet?

    Asked by Micheál to Gavin, Karen, Mark, Michel, Roisin on 10 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Mark Kennedy

      Mark Kennedy answered on 10 Nov 2016:


      There are already a few candidates for planets that we could inhabit that aren’t in our solar system (see, for example, Proxima b http://www.wired.co.uk/article/proxima-b-sun-star) and I really think some day we will inhabit one of these exoplanets (an exoplanet is a planet not in our solar system).

    • Photo: Roisin Jones

      Roisin Jones answered on 10 Nov 2016:


      I really hope so, I think that the idea of establishing human colonies ‘off world’ as it were, is probably one of the best hopes in the (hopefully distant) future for preserving our race!

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