Life on Mars and Moon - biologically possible

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                  Will it ever be possible to live on the moon or Mars?

Apparently nobody can give an exact answer whether and when we will live on the moon, Mars or another planet. The Earth is still the perfect place for the human beings but we should not forget that our planet has some problems. These problems, in their great majority, are caused by us - the humans - and they include: global warming, pollution, a hole in the Ozone layer, extinction of animal and plant species and so on. Consequently someday the condition on the Earth may become so unbearable and violent that people will have a simple choice – to die or to populate another planet! But is it possible?

Today we can predict the two major problems that will overtake us very soon. Firstly the lack of natural resources such as gas, oil, coals, ores and secondly overpopulation, especially in some regions. That is why NASA and other similar agencies are looking for a way to land and populate another planet. They are some major projects developed by USA, Japan and China, which aim to build a base on the moon. Let’s examine technically, financially and biologically the possible life on the moon. Financially it would cost about a trillion just to make an effort to build a base. Firstly we will have to improve our transport means, which are obviously too bad (it is well known fact that no one has stepped on the moon for decades due to very strange reasons). So we will not settle on the moon in next 2 or 3 centuries.

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Let’s see if it is worth making efforts. Biologically living on the moon is absurd. Life on earth has spent the last 4.5 billion years adapting to survive on this particular planet. So the only way to live on the moon is to change to conditions there. The temperatures on the moon range from highs of over 120 degrees Celsius in sunlight to -170 degrees at night. Humans would not survive this amplitude without spacesuit. Furthermore we need to breathe and the moon has a lot of oxygen, but only in compounds that are difficult to break apart, like SIO2, ...

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