People are so accustomed to Earth that any spacewalk is very expensive, and the flight to another planet is postponed for decades, and all because of our habits. We breathe air, swim in the sea, enjoy the sunset and normal gravity, without even thinking about how unusual these activities can be on other objects in the galaxy. Indeed, what things that are impossible for our places could be possible anywhere else in space?
Base jumping. The most extreme sport on Earth can be nothing more than an enjoyable walk on another planet. Usually it looks like this: an athlete jumps in a special suit with wings from a high point and rushes a few meters from the picturesque land on air currents. Then he opens the parachute and slowly descends onto solid ground. But if you jump in the same way on Titan, you can fly around the entire satellite.
The low gravity and composition of the atmosphere on this moon of Saturn would allow man to fulfill his long-held dream: to fly like a bird. Just think, what new, extreme sports could be created literally at our side. To fly, it would be enough to jump. True, you will have to live without taking off a special suit or without leaving the dome.
The monstrous pressure and peculiarities of the atmosphere make things completely unusual for us possible. For example, gas becomes … metal. Deep in the bowels of the giant planets Saturn and Jupiter, where the pressure is millions of times higher than that of the Earth, an amazing substance is formed - metallic hydrogen. Scientists are trying to recreate it in the laboratory because of its possibly beneficial properties. Metallic hydrogen compounds can provide us with efficient and clean fuel for rockets, as well as superconductors that work at room temperature. Absolutely all areas of technology would be overturned. And if we somehow learned to exist in conditions close to Jovian, we could rediscover the periodic table of elements.
Some space houses would turn our usual daily routine into torture. When a planet orbits very close to a star, the star's gravitational pull can make the world "tidally blocked." Such an object will always be turned with the same side to its star, as the Moon always shows one side of the Earth. This means that there will always be night on one side of the ball, and day on the other. At the same time, due to the endless stream of light, the water will evaporate and move to the other, colder half of the planet. Such is the cycle. Temperatures will also fluctuate greatly. Life would be possible only in the so-called "twilight zones", on the border of two hemispheres. People could choose for themselves eternal night or eternal day.
In general, a few extra stars can radically change the view from the planet's surface. We are used to observing the movement of the Sun across the sky from day to day. But if there were more than one sun in our system? HD 188753 is the first discovered planet in a triple star system. The view from such a planet is simply amazing. Triple sunsets and sunrises, play of light and rare nights. Each of us would cast three shadows at once. Keeping track of time would also be much more difficult.
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But the most interesting thing that can be found on another planet or satellite is, of course, life, which is completely different from ours in composition and living conditions. And the most curious thing is that we will be able to verify this very soon. Several years ago, scientists discovered strange lakes on Titan - reservoirs in which instead of water - methane. At the same time, the satellite of Saturn also has an atmosphere of hydrocarbons, many organic compounds and favorable conditions for the development of life. But what could this life be like?
Scientists at Cornell University have modeled a new type of creature that could breathe not oxygen, like us, but methane, which is abundant on Titan. They managed to create cell membranes, consisting of nitrogen compounds and capable of functioning in liquid methane at a temperature of 273 degrees below zero.
Likewise, there are many places in our galaxy where silicon-based life could appear, rather than carbon, as on Earth. It would never have found a place on our planet, like many other things. New unique properties of elements familiar to us could save us from hunger and poverty, discover new technologies and make a quantum leap. A small package from the diamond planet 55 Cancri e could solve all the financial problems of the Earth. That is why we need to keep exploring space and looking for unusual planets. To make the impossible possible.
ILYA KHEL