• Question: Are there any other planets that we could live on in the futer or anything close

    Asked by the local tescos store :) to Anna, George, Jodi, Rob, Stefan on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      The only planets we really have a chance of living on are those in our own solar system. That’s because the closest star is over 4 light years away – so it would take 4 years travelling at the speed of light, or 100,000 years at shuttle speeds. I don’t think any of our solar system planets are particularly good for living on, but that doesn’t mean we won’t adapt the surface (or ourselves) to be able to do so.

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