TED ATAKENT BAHÇEŞEHİR COLLEGE / 8-A
Should We Colonize
Other Planets?
Atahan ÜNAL
There are some concerns and ideas that have started to
arise about colonizing other planets. Humans might want
to colonize other planets for various reasons such as global
warming, a global scale famine, global overpopulation or for
further space exploration.
If we wanted to, with a lot of time and a lot of money, we could
theoretically colonize other planets. The closest exoplanet
to Earth is “Proxima Centauri b” which is about 4.2 light
years away. But we would need to take a lot of equipment
just to protect ourselves from the harsh conditions of space.
Also, we would need to take a lot of equipment and manage
our food, water, energy carefully. But someone should be
in charge to distribute our resources equally and make the
right choices concerning the colony. It would probably be
someone responsible and trustworthy and chosen for this
mission.
We could do valuable scientific experiments to understand
our universe better by testing different things in a different
environment or to invent new technologies if we colonized
other planets.
I think we should colonize other planets because humans will
eventually have the technology and when the technology
gets there, we will have to look further in space for humanity
to continue advancing. I think that colonizing other planets
would be beneficial to humanity as a whole.
If we decided to colonize other planets, we would be able
to do it in different ways like building a base on the surface
of the planet. If we colonized other planets, we probably
wouldn’t find aliens, but we could possibly get some
resources such as metals, water or other things probably
from underground. If we found resources, we would probably
not bring it back to Earth but, instead use it for our colony.