Colonization: Is It Possible?

[Tokerovin]

both ideas are completely ridiculous. the moon has effectively no atmosphere, and if you were to magically give it one, it'd fade away after a few thousand years.

Mistaken. A large, bio-sphere-resembling module that could house plant life on the moon is being developed. Being that the moon houses a stuff load of ice, once they can dig down a little bit it's game time. Sunlight will be used to melt the ice and for photosynthesis in the plant leaves.

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[Jay the Cartoonist]

All of you guys are stupid with this :|   There are no practical ways for us to colonize any planets we currently know about, and if we found a planet we could colonize it would probably be so far away that you'd go insane on the flight over there.

It would almost be more practical to develop teleportation technology before even thinking about colonizing another planet, but that's still probably impossible.

[Saber15]

Mistaken. A large, bio-sphere-resembling module that could house plant life on the moon is being developed. Being that the moon houses a stuff load of ice, once they can dig down a little bit it's game time. Sunlight will be used to melt the ice and for photosynthesis in the plant leaves.

the way he worded it meant made it look like he wanted trees on the surface of the moon, not under domes, which is completely possible.

[Kearn]

He didn't shut it down lol.

What did you watch fox news or something?

fox news didn't say that, handicap 

[Riot]

Well the shuttle was impractical in many cases. (Not always, but often). The solid rocket boosters would occasionally fail to deploy their parachutes, resulting in them sinking. The external tank would burn up in the atmosphere, and that is the biggest part on the space shuttle stack. Also, the orbiter has to go through extensive maintenance to be certified for flight. All those components are getting shipped in from the surrounding states (The fuel tank comes from New Orleans by barge). All these expenses added up (even though the massive Saturn V was not much different, no component could ever be used again). If anyone in the US tries to fly into space again, they are going to need to come up with more practical, reusable devices.

A plane type vehicles that takes off on a runway and makes it into space, then lands easily.

[blaman]

It doesn't seem possible. Almost every planet is inhabitable but earth.

The thing is, the number of planets we have surveyed is equivalent to a single grain of sand on a beach.
You also have to take in consideration that life isn't a whiny bitch when it comes to finding places to settle. We've found life here on earth in the most impossibly extreme climates.

[xxjpxx]

A plane type vehicles that takes off on a runway and makes it into space, then lands easily.

Exactly. Of course the biggest problem is the amount of fuel needed to take off from a runway and make it to orbit by itself.



Orbiter anyone?

[Nymethus]

Related film
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2014 is the magic year

[Wayvo]

Space? Space?!?! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CE!!!!!!!

(Sorry it just had to be done.)

[NotKreation]

Apparently exploring water is super duper important now.