• Question: Do you think we will ever be able to send colonists to another hospitable solar system? If so, how? Like near light speed travel, cryogenics or something similar? Thanks :)

    Asked by reallivemushroom to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 18 Mar 2013.
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      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Absolutely! There’s already a few early stage studies looking at this. For example there was an experiment in Russia to see the long term psychological effects of space travel. Essential a group of Russians lived in a fake space ship, with no outside contact, to see if they can cope. They did!

      We certainly will, its only a question of when. Since there’s more interest from private companies in space travel, either space tourism or space mining, then this will certainly help in developing the technologies we need! My only hope is that it happens in our life time. REALLY want a personal moon base.

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