Thursday, 23 February 2012

Ten Things the Future will hold! (10)

10. Intergalactic Domination Mwahahaha ... well sort of.

The final thing I'd like to see - and maybe one of the things I'd most like to see is humans travelling to the far reaches of the universe and colonising many planets; hopefully abundant in life.
I'm sorry but I'd just adore it if the world turned of like it did in science fiction.
I want to visit Pandora.
I want to go to Omicron Persei 8.
I guess that I think about this too much.
Anyway for the human race to survive and flourish we will need more than one place we can call home and possible candidates need to exist in a place called the 'goldilocks zone'. The 'goldilocks zone' or habitable zone is the position the planet is away from the system's star compared to it's size. This is compared relative to our Sun but can still work with other star systems as long as we know the stars strength relative to our own star.
When we find exo-planets this method is useful to determine is the planet is habitable ... or even habitted.

An artists impression of Gliese 581 g, which could support
liquid water and a structure like Earth's.


An example of one of these is 'Gliese 581 g' which is approximately 20.5 light years away from Earth. Finding planets like these could be useful to us if we ever develop advanced methods of intergalactic travel.

One predicted method of intergalactic colonisation is a space ship which can divide itself into individual pods. The spaceship is made up of these individual units - each with it's own crew, and when the time is right to divide and go to the designated planet the pods separate.
Sorry for the extremely short post but not much is planned for intergalactic travel. When our earth starts to be more polluted than it already is we may need to find a new home and maybe something more suitable than a planet in our Solar System might be necessary. Thanks for reading, Chris.



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