• Question: Are there other planets in our solar system that we could live on.

    Asked by gab2000 to Bob, Katie, Nisha, Sallie, Vee on 27 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Sallie Baxendale

      Sallie Baxendale answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Not in our solar system. Planets closer to the sun are way too hot and those further away are far too cold. Also, none of the other planets in our solar system have a suitable atmosphere with air for us to breathe. There may be some planets in distant galaxies that might be able to support life like ours, but it would take millions of years to get to them, even if we could travel at the speed of light, which we cant.

    • Photo: Bob Bonwick

      Bob Bonwick answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      not really. They are either too cold or too hot. None of them have a breathable atmosphere and the gravity is all wrong. As a species, human beings are very fragile and cannot cope with harsh environments for long periods, nor can we cope with a chage in gravity. Astronauts after a few trips into space begin to lose vital minerals in their boes and also loss of muscle tone as they dont’ have the resistance of our gravity to keep as fit. In experiments on heavier gravity it was noted that organs didn’t function as well as they do under normal conditions.

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