Will the world run out of space?

terraforming=making a planet habitable

 

ahh ok I think I misunderstood the term terraforming

 

I can walk Northeast of my house for miles and miles and I'm convinced I could/have/will step in places to modern man has ever stepped before. But eventually and inevitably we will become overpopulated and become impoverished as fuck (pop. vs resources), or we'll find another planet to fuck relentlessly for resources. It'll be great fun.

 

yeah not ot mention wars over who gets what planet. that might drop the pop down a little

 

We could start living on other planets in the next 30 years, the only problem is it would cost a massive amount of money, moving resources from Earth to Mars (closest). Also I don't think it would take hundreds of millions of years to terraform an Earth-sized planet. In fact it could take as little as a century, depending on the resources we supply to it. Terra forming is actually very similar to crop rotation in a lot of ways.

 

a century , you would need more than a 100 years to put oxygen in, make a better atmosphere, growing plants, getting water started, warming up the planet, and solving the magnetosphere problem . it would take a lot of time, money and earth resources.

 

Ah, you seem to be assuming we'd be starting with a completely uninhabitable planet. Taking Mars as an example, we'd only need to grow Earth plants and bring building materials, a fair amount of water and food. Within 20 years, it would be possible that small sections could be climatised. It's then just a slow process of expanding those micro-climates outwards into bigger and bigger climates.

 

Whoops
Thats right.

We just have to build a glass dome and live inside it.

 

I can fix that.

 

Its possible. Even if we say the world is a big enough place for us all, it will never be enough because we are also very territorial and the Earth also has a maximum limit cap for all living things. But knowing the nature of man, we will just end up killing ourselves and each other to make space and meet our demands as well as our own desires.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_mars a bit more complicated than that

 

freezing a planet i see... that could work.. kinda... but not now... lets just use the dome for now

 

Mars is already pretty frigid, why would you want to cool it down further? That won't help terraformation at all.

 

For all you people above using wikipedia links, bear in mind that wikipedia is not the most accurate source as people can change it at anytime.

 

Interesting link, but I still stick to my reasoning that it could be done in a fairly narrow time frame; it'd just take a huge amount of resources.

 

Considering the fact that humans can't seem to get along and communicate with each other without sparking some conflict, I think we will all be gone before the world will, if ever, run out of space.

 

the world wont run out of space because...... soon there is going to be a major diaster thats gonna wipe out alot of the population...

 

Once you no longer need to breathe we can consider it >.>

 

just for all of the people above who put in wikipedia links-remember, wikipedia isn't always 100% truthful. anybody can edit it, so don't always trust it. But yeah, I'm a hypocrite coz I use it too.

 

we will just run out of air before we run out of space