The earth and the moon inhabitants

Question

ive herd that in about 1000 years earth will be over populated and most of the population will have to migrate to the moon, i know nobody today has to worry about that sort of thing but ive also read that N.A.S.A. has robots building an air system on the moon and i was wondering if we will be able to go ther sooner thanks everyone ^_^

Answer 1

And you believed all this?

Answer 2

The moon will probably have the first colony.  Mars has some advantages but also some big disadvantages.

The moon is closer and much easier to reach.  We've already had people on the moon.  But it has a gravity that will pose a problem with bone structure.  Without an Earth normal gravity, your bones will be smaller and have less strength.  It has no atmosphere to breathe or as protection against radiation or meteors.  People and plants would have to survive inside enclosed pressurized domes or structures.  It would probably be colonized first simply as a base for Mars trips if nothing else.

Mars is much, much farther away.  Travel time in itself is a big challenge.  Transporting people and supplies will be much more difficult and expensive.  There's also a limited window for travel to Mars that only accurs  every 2 years as the planets are closest to each other.  Even if Mars would eventually reach a point to be self-sustaining supplies need to be shipped until that happens.   While it has an atmosphere, it's not breathable in either density or composition.  Mars has more gravity but it's still not Earth normal.  Bone structure will still be a problem and the gravity isn't sufficient to retain an Earth normal atmospheric pressure.  It may be possible to grow plants on the surface but people will still have to live in domes.  The dust storms on Mars are also a problem.  They apparently last for days and could be a huge issue for growing crops.  

Still, 1,000 years is a long time.  Space travel may be safe and cheap by that time.  In that case, all bets are off.  

  

  

    

Answer 3

There is no celestial body in the solar system which would be more hospitable than the earth, even if we completely ruin this planet. It would be incalculably less expensive and more do-able for us to renovate the earth, than it would be to try to terraform or set up colonies on Mars or the moon, (of the size which would accommodate a significant portion of our population).

No one qualified to advise governments on such matters would ever suggest evacuation as a solution to our problems here. It's a popular but utterly unscientific and impractible pipe dream.  I believe it is also dangerous for too many people to believe such a thing can be achieved, as this will cause them to ignore the urgency of our situation on this planet.  Here's a typical train of thought from those who don't care about global warming, or religions and governments which prohibit or discourage birth control: "Oh, what are you so worried about?  By the time our descendants get to the point where these things threaten the survival of our species, they'll just be able to pick up and move somewhere else."

Wrong.

Answer 4

Where did you hear this? Mars is a much better candidate to terraform.

Answer 5

It's possible, but It's more likely that we will live on Mars.

There have been ideas about setting up pods on the Moon first, only to make the trip easier to get to Mars.

Answer 6

Mars will be next.

I feel the Moon will be the launching point.

Mars we can live on.

The Moon is a big old rock.