Species of living creatures that once lived on our wondrous planet. more than 99 percent It disappeared. In addition, new species are regularly added to the list; Living life on our planet is getting depleted, even if we don’t realize it in the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

who thinks the world belongs to him alone and the fact that living beings are so dying out For the human species, which does not think about what it means for itself, this fact often goes no further than a sigh like ‘too bad, 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 start all over again on another planetis seen as making an entirely different planet our home. Agree Will humanity be able to achieve this? Will we ever be able to live on another planet? 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 home to our species:

In 10 years, it won’t be hard to imagine a scenario where an astronaut who went to Mars on SpaceX’s Starship rocket sends us a photo from there. Although time is insignificant, it is used for scientific studies. a person who sets foot on another planet It’s a thought we’ve already accepted. But it should be noted that we are not doing anything of the sort in this article; another planet making it the new home of our species Let’s take a look at his idea.

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

We have a scenario where we can do this in general terms. Agree how possible? How far have we come so far to realize this scenario? 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 as we travel through our solar system It doesn’t quite allow it. We are sending unmanned spacecraft to different planets, yes, but we are still in the early stages of human spaceflight. That being the case, Planets outside the solar system bit off topic for now.

Nobel laureate astrophysicist Michel Mayor very clear about this. According to him, our species will never be able to go to an 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 stars are virtually inaccessible”. Mayor summarizes the scientific reason for the situation and the solution that seems unlikely at this point as follows; ”In this case, the physics required to reach the stars, if any, are unknown to us about the relationship between mass, acceleration and energy will require a fundamental change in our understanding”.

By the way, it is worth noting that Jupiter is about 600 MILLION KM 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, apart from the long journey, this journey will not be like going on the highway, and that we will have to follow a very shaky route in space full of asteroids. So you’ll understand It’s not easy in our solar system either.

In addition to 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 one.

As you might guess, this excluded planet Hymn. This is largely why NASA or SpaceX have their eyes on Mars. Mars, the footsteps of humanity that seem possible with today’s technology and science and makes it logical a planet.

But why? Can’t we go to another planet in the vast solar system?

Actually we can go. But We stay where we go. This is evident from the results of the research conducted so far. Of course this ‘we can go’ is only a ‘possibility’, but it doesn’t get there anyway.

For example, that of Jupiter gas giant We know that it is and is not suitable for life. Or, for example, Venus is much closer to us than Mars and has a surface on which we can print. But it is not very wise to press Venus infernal heaterupting volcanoes and high pressure everywhere, it seems to us ‘do not mess with me’ say. Mercury is already so close to the sun that that alone is reason to rule it out. Thus we have eliminated all the 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 have tried to answer briefly our first important condition, ‘a planet where we can live and where we can get’, with the common discourse of numerous scientific studies conducted to date. And it makes you say “I wonder” during this answer almost all options We saw that he was disabled. Therefore, we continue with Mars, which is the only logical option for now.

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

Here too, a true Mars enthusiast devoted his heart to this work. Elon Musk and his “space transportation” company SpaceX contribution is huge. Because at the moment the most plausible technology that will allow us to “move” to Mars is SpaceX’s transport system, which consists of a spacecraft that will take people to Mars and the powerful rocket Super Heavy to launch it. starship. Starship is still being tested today. Starship, with a payload of 100 tons, will be able to deliver both very heavy equipment and people to Mars at the same time.

Starship, initially aimed at the moon, will then set course for Mars. For now, 2024 is all about the first unmanned trip to Mars with Starship. According to the latest statements from Elon Musk, manned first Mars trip It could happen in 2025 or 2026. However, it is useful to note 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 journey to Mars were due to “unpredictable circumstances and unknowns.” will lose his life.

We landed on Mars, now what?

Let’s say the day came when the first humans set foot on Mars. What comes next is actually the hardest part. Because even though our best guess is Mars, the conditions are just right on this red and beautiful planet. unfit for human life.

First, there is no atmosphere on Mars that allows us to take off our helmets and take a deep breath. 96 percent consists of carbon dioxide. Also, Mars, which is slightly further from the sun than our planet, is a very cold planet, whose temperatures depend on the planet’s seasons. -140 degrees to 20 degrees it is changing. Of course, the one that covers everything and makes it ‘out of sight’. dust storms there is.

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

Finally:

Our main question is ‘Will humans ever be able to live on another planet?’. The answer is technical even if it seems ‘yes’ We don’t yet know what ongoing research on Mars will reveal to us. NASA is currently conducting studies that will broaden our horizons on the planet with the Perseverance spacecraft, which reached the surface of Mars this year.

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

At the moment my personal opinion is that it is organic of a planet where we cannot naturally live in the conditions to which it adapts and presents itself. under no circumstances colonized for our species. no permanent home direction.

Going to Mars is exciting, as is looking for traces of ancient life on Mars, trying to figure out what kind of planet it will become 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’m not sure. Perhaps with the opportunities that the technology that has developed over the years will offer us. Mars would be just a stopover to our original new home.

Meanwhile, our real home in which we have evolved If only we could work with the same enthusiasm and awareness to save the world.Maybe in the future we won’t have to look for a new home and 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 border where we can do nothing We are about to pass now.