• Question: Do you believe that one day we will be able to move to a different solar system to preserve our race?

    Asked by Octopus Prime to Jarrod, Yip, Iona, Eloise, Adam on 13 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Man Hang Yip

      Man Hang Yip answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      I think we will be able to, but we may not need to.

    • Photo: Iona Strawson

      Iona Strawson answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      I think we will probably colonise the planets in our solar system first, starting with Mars. Hopefully we won’t need to go much further, or maybe even leave earth at all. I think we will explore space a lot more, and I guess colonisation comes with that, if history is anything to go by.

    • Photo: Jarrod Hart

      Jarrod Hart answered on 23 Jun 2016:

      Yes, for sure. We will realise that it takes less than four years to get to proxima centauri so long as you get go at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light.

      While I sometimes think no one would be crazy enough to make the journey, we have to remember that people set out across oceans once, with similarly bad odds…

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