by Woeler » July 11th, 2012, 8:36 pm
[quote="Kopalover"]Since we recently did a study of this in my classes. I'd like to take input here.
There is an earth like planet out there. It's within our Galaxy but out of reach for now. It is way larger than Earth. With Over-Population reaching its limit in the next century or two, they would start building ships very soon to travel there. Bringing the best scientist there first to tests its living quality, then once they give the go, I believe they'll start bringing some of the population piece by piece to this new Earth.
Though, for now I'm pretty sure they're still even trying to figure out the mode of transportation. So I don't believe I see our generations going to this new earth..[/quote]
Since this planet is lightyears away(i believe 21), and we simply can not travel faster than light, it would take us at least 21 years with the most optimized form a of transport (which we do not posses), this means we need to freeze human beings for the journey (also a technology we do not posses). Bringing a lot of people to this planet is highly unlikely because we would need to freeze them all and build lot of superexpenisve spaceships with a lot of fuel (which we simply dont have). The most likely scenario is that somewhere in the next millenium we will reach that planet and the only way to colonize it is to get people there and get them to get kids. If this were to solve overpopulation that would mean that everyone on earth should suddenly stop getting kids because oherwise the population would still grow.
There are those who complain about the wind, there are those who hope the wind will change, --though the wise-- the wise adjust their sails.