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 .