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Old 05-01-2015, 02:58 PM  
Rochard
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Originally Posted by Joshua G View Post
yes, a few elon musks will do that. but im talking about continuing the whole human race outside earth. do you think that a group of explorers can build a new population in space? you do understand there is no gravity, food, air, air pressure, sunlight with bad rays filtered out...generations of humans reproducing without gravity will quickly evolve into blobs and/or something other than a human. how does one maintain a billion people without a planet?
Eventually we will find a planet that can support us. There seems to be an endless amount of planets, so eventually we will find one able to support life as we know it.

Most planets will have gravity to some degree; The moon has gravity just not as much as we are used to.
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