Friday, March 20, 2015
Sex in Space
When I was watching the videos, Sex in Space came up on the side so I watched it. Space is scary to me. I don't really understand why we would try to go create life on a different planet. To me, there is a reason that people aren't already living there. I think trying to create life on a different planet could potentially be a good thing, but I think that a lot of problems are going to come about. Like they said in the episode Sex in Space, the mice they used for testing reproducing in space had many defects. Even after they returned from space and mated with mice that never went to space there were problems with the offspring. I feel that if humans go to space and begin living on another planet and start reproducing, we are going to encounter many problems that we may not be able to handle. If the offspring born in space all have mutations, it is just going to be passed down from generation to generation. I personally think trying to live on Mars is a waste of money. I understand why we would want to use resources from Mars, but are the problems that could potentially from living there going to outweigh the new resources?
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I too have a problem understanding why people would want to create a new life of another planet. In a way it is unnatural we aren't made to live anywhere else, other planets can not sustain any kind of life. To me it seems like common sense that on another planet reproducing new life can't work. We would naturally evolve to better live in a different environment that alone could cause problems like defects.
ReplyDeleteThe universe is never ending and I don't think we can ever fully understand it.
Creating life on a new planet…how about no. I agree, I think it’d be just too dangerous. I mean, yes, technically if we reproduced in space and there were mutations that would just get passed on, and on, and on the mutations would become normally and technically the mutations would be basically adaptations and blah, blah, blah. There’s always that one looming mutation that could ruin everything: infertility. We don’t know: if a baby is born in space, will it even be fertile? Trying to live on Mars, as you said, is a waste of money. But humans have wanted to live on another planet since we starting going into space. Remember Venus? We thought we could live there! That is…until we found out that it rains H2SO4 there…
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying. Although many advances have been made so that life on Mars could be possible in the future it doesn't seem like all of the kinks could ever be worked out. Traveling in space itself has negative effects on our bodies that are used to the atmospheric pressure of the planet we were put on. Why must it be our goal to leave here and make "life" on Mars when it seems life there won't be so pleasant.
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