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1 Discussion Post #1
ASTR1010 Name: Episode Reflection: 1.
What episode did you watch? 2.
Write out your reflection to the episode. Remember your response needs to be at least 150 words: Discussion Questions: Choose ONE
of the following questions to answer. Remember your answer needs to be at least 50 words: Question 1.
We established back in Lab 1 that it would take a really long time to travel to places inside and especially outside of the Solar System. What are some realistic methods you could come up with to deal with long term space travel? What are some more sci-fi methods (for instance, Carl Sagan has a magical spaceship in Cosmos) that you could imagine? Where in the Universe would you want to travel to and why?
2 Question 2.
The idea of life on different bodies of the Solar System is a wild one. After Pioneer 10 did a flyby of Jupiter, Dr. Sagan suggested there could be jellyfish-
type creatures living in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Pick a body in the Solar System that could host life (ex. Mars, Europa, Enceladus, Titan). Quickly investigate the environment of that body (is it a water world? Is it hot or cold? What is the gravity like? etc.) and hypothesize what kind of creatures could possibly live on this planet. Be as realistic or sci-fi in your answer as you want. Question 3.
The reality is that someday humans will visit other worlds in the Solar System. From an ethical standpoint, what are our responsibilities when it comes to visiting other places? Think about things like environmental impacts, are humans a biohazard to life already on these worlds, and what do we do if intelligent life already lives there? 3.
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