• Question: Will it ever be possible for people to live on the moon or will there ever be teleportation?

    Asked by Funky Joe tho! to Aislinn, Fiona, Nathan, Padraic, Sinead on 30 Jan 2015.
    • Photo: Sinead Quirke

      Sinead Quirke answered on 30 Jan 2015:

      Yes if we want it and invest enough time and effort and money – we are only limited by our current knowledge – remember when we believed that the world was flat ????

    • Photo: Nathan Quinlan

      Nathan Quinlan answered on 30 Jan 2015:

      People did live on the moon for a few days. People are living in earth orbit for up to a year. It probably can be done. The question is – what would we learn from it, and will it be worth the cost? I think space travel is going to be all about robotic exploration for a while – like the amazing Rosetta mission – and new safe cheaper Earth orbit spacecraft like the SpaceX ships – and maybe sending humas to Mars.

      Sorry, I forgot the teleportation part of your question. I’m no expert, but I can’t see it ever happening. Physicists have achieved a kind of teleportation of tiny objects – a few atoms – but it’s not Star Trek. But here’s something that can be done today: make a 3D scan of an object in one place, and send the data over the internet to a 3D printer that makes a copy of the object. That technology is getting better all the time.

    • Photo: Aislinn Coghlan

      Aislinn Coghlan answered on 9 Feb 2015:

      Hi Funky Joe,

      I think is we were going to invest in inhabiting another planet, we wouldn’t start with the moon. We’d have to find somewhere with more life.

      As for teleportation, I don’t think you or I will ever see it happening but I think in the future it will. No cars, planes or boats – you just step into your portal and you’re there!

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