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Terraforming: the survival of the human race

What in the world is terraforming?

Terraforming is Mars changing another place to suit the needs of the human race. By another place we mean other bodies such as planets, orbiting asteroids, and moons. By "suiting" the needs of human life we mean artificially creating or stimulating the conditions that support life on Earth. On this site you will see described several different approaches to the idea of terraforming. One is called Terraforming using microbes and the other Terraforming using heat.

Why is this important?

The idea of terraforming is to save life on Earth. Why does life on Earth need to be saved? Because we are facing threats. Some of these threats are possiblities but one threat is guaranteed. On this website you'll learn about some of these threats. We studied the three following threats: supernova/the death of our sun, a huge asteroid or comet hitting Earth, and global-warming. There are other threats to our continued existence but we have chosen to highlight the three mentioned above.

Who we are Our school

We are a group of Grade 5 students at Brunskill School/KCC in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. We found the subject of terraforming interesting because it is a new idea and as young people we are concerned about the future.

Our names are Josh Heinrichs, Louis Reed-Wood, Nathan Mousseau,and Stefan Belev. We would like to thank our grade 5 teachers Mr. Shockey and Mr. Macintosh. We would also like to thank Shannon Fraser for all her help explaining Dreamweaver to us.

Conclusion

Our hypothesis is that terraforming will possibly succeed. Obstacles such as government funding and transportation of extremeophiles to the chosen planet will slow the process. Although terraforming is being studied and planned, governments might not allow terraforming to proceed.

Over the months we prepared this site and studied terraforming, we concluded that terraforming will succeed if it goes as planned but will take a substantial amount of time. Challenges to the terraforming process are atmosphere formation, the heating of the selected planet(s), construction of the technology needed, the time for the microbes to transform the planet, accurate mapping of Mars...

In spite of all these challenges we predict that one strong option for the continuing survival of the human race will be advancing to another planet(s) through terraforming.