Maddy Klapp

Intern/Mentor G/T

Data Collection Results

Document Name Author/ Creator How does it support the Hypothesis?

“The Effects of Altieri, Daniel This document supports my hypothesis by providing facts
Overpopulation on and statistics on the usage of water around the world and
Water Resources mentions how limited of a resource it really is. Since the
and Water Earth will eventually go through a water crisis, humans will
Security.” need to seek out another water source, which would be space.
Running out of fresh water will be a huge push factor to
space travel, exploration, and the inhabiting of other celestial
bodies.

“Animals Killed for Delaware Action This document supports my hypothesis by giving statistics on
Sport/Fashion.” For Animals the amount of animals that are killed by humans per year and
the reason they are being hunted. This supports my call for
action because it shows that humans are contributing to the
extinction of many different species for their fur or other
resources. The extinction of animals is also a huge factor in
making Earth uninhabitable since these animals are essential
to the food chain and the ecosystem as a whole.

“The Future of Deep Atkinson, Nancy This article supports my thesis because it provides specific
Space Propulsion examples of proposed propulsion systems that will help
May Soon Be humans travel through deep space and land on Mars. It relates
Radically Altered.” to the NASA’s plans for saving mankind and provides a more
specific branch of research of the propulsion systems that will
aid in the advancement of space travel.

“Climate Change.” Attenborough, This article goes over the effects of climate change on
David specifically the oceans. It supports my thesis because it lists
the effects of climate change which are rising sea levels,
ocean acidification, and rising sea temperatures. All of these
effects will destroy many habitats such as the great barrier
reef. This will come back to humans by destroying shores and
kill off the seafood we eat everyday. Climate change will also
be a huge factor in making humans leave Earth.

“Scientists Hatch Baggaley, Kate This article supports my hypothesis because it mentions one
Bold Plan to Save of the immediate threats right here on Earth, the eruption of a
Planet from supervolcano. This threat could potentially be a push factor
away from Earth as well since the effects could be
Supervolcano catastrophic.
Eruption.”

“NASA’s Longshot Berger, Eric This article supports my thesis because it explains a specific
Bet on a type of rocket engine and what it can be used for now, and
Revolutionary how it can be used in the future once it is improved. This
Rocket May Be VASIMR engine is operable now for unmanned inner solar
about to Pay Off.” system missions, but is not yet ready for manned deep space
engines. Once nuclear power is approved to be used, then
deep spacecraft will be way more efficient. The engine
doesn't necessarily need to be used for the whole mission; it
can be used for the steady part of the mission, which will
reduce the cost significantly, still. These steady
improvements upon the engine make the possibility of deep
space travel closer and closer. Any reduction in cost and fuel
is a positive impact towards deep space exploration, because
money is one of the biggest restriction to experimentation and
rocket launches. When the engine is proved to work, then it
will be funded for, and then humans will be able to start the
mission to evacuate Earth before it is destroyed.

“How We’ll Boyle, Rebecca This article supports my thesis because it explains a threat to
Safeguard Earth Earth that is not often thought about. Solar flares could have
from a Solar Storm a significant effect on the human way of life and could
Catastrophe.” potentially aid in human extinction. Solar flares are a great
addition to space threats that contribute to human extinction
because similar to asteroid impact, the harmful effects can be
prevented by the evolution of space technology.

“NASA's Bold Plan Boyle, Rebecca This article supports my thesis because it is specific to one
to Save Earth from area of NASA and their preparation to save humankind. The
Killer Asteroids.” article includes and explains each possible plan to prevent
asteroid impact with earth. It is optimistic that one or more of
these plans will be carried out and will save Earth from an
asteroid one day.

“Deforestation: Bradford, Alina This document provides statistics on deforestation and the
Facts, Causes & disastrous effects from it. It increases CO2 emissions,
Effects.” destroys habitats, and kills off animals and plants that are
essential to the environment. These effects could support the
eventual evacuation of Earth, therefore; this article supports
my thesis.

“Here's How Often Byrd, Deborah This picture and document shows how many asteroids
Small Asteroids actually enter Earth’s atmosphere. Asteroids serve as a huge
Enter Earth's space threat, and an even bigger threat when Earth cools
Atmosphere!” down and it’s magnetic field is altered. This document
supports my thesis because Asteroids could be a driving
factor to leave Earth and find a safer home.

“Mount Holyoke Cahill, Pat This document supports my thesis because it mentions a
Professor Darby possible temporary celestial body that we could live on with
Dyar Says a Colony water, the moon. Living on the moon could be an essential
on the Moon Is No first step in deep space travel and eventually inhabiting
Fantasy.” celestial bodies that are further away like Mars or Jupiter’s
moons. The article also mentions the importance of water
extraction research to the evolution of space travel and the
survival of mankind.

“The Effects of Cairoli, Sarah This document supports my thesis because it mentions a huge
Overpopulation & push factor to leave Earth, and that is the depletion of natural
Depletion of Natural resources due to overpopulation. This supports the call for
Resources.” action for humans to seek out resources from space or even to
inhabit other planets or moons to put all of these people since
Earth is becoming overpopulated.

“We’re Now One Carpineti, This article supports my thesis because it focuses on one
Step Closer To Alfredo specific rocket propulsion system, the ion propulsion system.
Deep Space It explains that ion propulsion is currently being improved
Voyages After and that it will soon be used to send people to Mars. This aids
NASA’s Latest in research because it provides the basis of the understanding
Success.” of the new ion propulsion so that further, more detailed
research on propulsion systems can be conducted and
understood. Understanding exactly how these systems work
is essential to future contributions to the evolution of deep
space propulsion systems so that humans can eventually
inhabit other planets or moons in the solar system, and one
day, even further.

“All Seafood Will Clover, Charles This article mentions how humans will run out of seafood in
Run out in 2050, less than 40 years due to overfishing and climate change.
Say Scientists.” This is yet another example of how humans are destroying
Earth. Since Earth and the environment is being destroyed,
this supports my thesis that humans will need to leave Earth
one day, make a new home, and try again.

“How Will Earth’s David, Leonard This article supports my thesis because it focuses more on the
Leaders Respond to world-wide effort necessary for the evacuation of Earth to be
a Real Asteroid successful one day. It has a more humanitarian point of view
Threat?” and completely ignores all political and racial issues that go
on throughout the world and instead brings the human race
 together as one. The article stresses that asteroids affect all
parts of the Earth, and humans must come together as one
race to prevent the loss of many lives and or even a possible
extinction.

“Improved Ion Dodson, Brian This article supports my thesis because it gives general
Engines Will Open knowledge about the way these ion propulsion systems work.
up the Outer Solar It also mentions the downfall of the current engine and how
System.” the engineers fixed it. Knowing the downfalls of an engine
allows engineers to get together and fix a specific problem.
The article demonstrates an authentic design process and how
engineers narrow down the problem with their system, and
fix each problem one at a time, and go through the design
process until everything is working properly and most
efficiently. When all of the problems with this ion propulsion
system are addressed, deep space missions will no longer be
an event of the future, and humans will be able to venture off
of Earth to save their own species.

“What's Next For Dunbar, Brian This article supports my thesis because it updates everyone
NASA?” on NASA’s current goals and priorities. It also gives a
summary of their plans, since many people do not care to
think about future development to save mankind one day. It is
also very optimistic about the future of human life and the
evolution of space travel and aviation. This article motivates
a new research topic and provides clear cut solution for real
life problems that are being solved by NASA currently.

“Facts - Wildlife.” Animal Matters This document includes many statistics on the animals
driven to extinction due to human way of life. This contributes
to the destruction of Earth from the inside out which will be a
main factor in driving humans away from Earth.

“What We Would Frassanito, John, This article was very optimistic about a future manned Mars
Need to Do to Send and NASA mission. This document helps support my thesis because it
People to Mars.” thoroughly explains all of the factors that need to be
addressed before a Mars mission can be executed. This is
where engineering and research come into play. The
engineering of new space suits, propulsion systems, rovers,
and other space technology is essential to the solving of these
challenges. Successfully executing this mission is one of the
first steps to saving mankind, which provides an answer to
the research question: “How will the evolution of space
technology save mankind one day?” Another thing that the
article subtly mentions is the importance of the continuation
 of the International Space Station. The Space Station is
essential for the conduction of experiments needed for
innovation of space suits and methods to grow food on other
planets.

“The Odds of an Harris, Alan This article supports my thesis because it shines a new light
Asteroid Strike.” on how to prevent asteroid impact and human extinction. It
does not just focus on the technology and strategies of
prevention, but the funding that is essential for it. This creates
a new branch of research regarding the political point of
view, as opposed to the scientific point of view. This problem
with funding asteroid prevention research could ultimately
deprive humans of the essential knowledge to save the planet
one day.

“How Long Will the NASA This document supports my thesis because it explains how
Earth Remain Earth becoming uninhabitable is inevitable because of the
Habitable?” natural life cycle of the sun. The sun will make the Earth too
hot for life to exist in less than 300 million years. Since life
won’t be possible on Earth one day, humans will have to
leave Earth in order to survive.

“Trump’s Space Howell, This article is very insightful, and foreshadows the future
Force Push Reopens Elizabeth utilization of space. It does not focus on the future of space
Arguments About travel or the prevention of asteroid impact, but it indirectly
Military in Space.” affects these universal goals. This article contradicts the fact
that asteroid prevention requires a world wide effort because
it eludes to the separation of American space affairs, and will
even cause friction between several countries. President
Trump even mentions the desire for American dominance in
space. This new military branch will set back the progression
of all humans coming together to accomplish a common goal:
saving the Earth and the human race.

“Hunting Wildlife World Animal This article supports my hypothesis because it again
to Extinction.” Foundation contains facts about the hunting and killing of wildlife
essential to our ecosystem. Hunting, poaching, and over
fishing completely mess up the biodiversity in the
environment. These actions that humans are taking are
supporting the extinction of thousands of species and
habitats. Once all of these animals are finally extinct, many
ecosystems will collapse, and the Earth will not be a very
desirable place to live anymore.

“Impact of Habitat WWF Habitat loss is also a huge factor contributing to the
Loss on Species.” extinction of animals around the world. Humans are taking
 part in deforestation, overgrazing, mining, and increasing
agricultural land. Taking away the homes of these plants and
animals are not only hurting them, but they are hurting us.
Destroying the environment is altering the atmosphere
drastically, and is also interrupting the food chain.

“Finding Water On Kingston This article is helpful because it elaborates on the finding of
The Moon Has University water on the moon, and explains how the water got there.
Major Implications Knowing how the water got on the moon will aid in the
For Human Space research of how to extract it to make it accessible for use. The
Exploration.” article is very similar to the one that explains the various
missions being conducted to find out how to extract the
water, but it is essential to know the origination of the water.
The article explains that this is a huge step in human space
exploration, which is exactly what the research project is all
about. The information can be used to motivate people to
study more about water on other celestial bodies so that one
day deep space travel will be possible, and humans will be
able to save themselves.

“What Are Landers, John This document explains all of the resources that we rely so
Renewable and heavily on. It also mentions all of the resources that are non
Non-Renewable renewable, which means that they will run out one day.
Resources?” When resources like coal, natural gas, and oil run out,
humans will be in big trouble. The document helps support
my thesis because limited natural resources will also be a
huge push factor to explore space and seek resources there
to save mankind. This will also make it more vital, because
we will need to get to space before the resources run out
since it takes a lot of fuel to get to space in the first place. If
we run out on resources on Earth before we venture out to
space, then humans will be in a bad situation.

“Jeff Bezos Wants Levy, Steven This document supports my thesis because Jeff Bezos, an
Us All to Leave Aeronautical engineer agrees that it is essential for humans
Earth-for Good.” to evacuate Earth to ensure our own survival.

“Deforestation: Makki, Shiva This article provides statistics on the amount of forests that
Disastrous are destroyed per year by humans. Deforestation destroys
Consequences for biodiversity, and depletes natural resources which are
the Climate and for essential for human life to thrive in this day and age.
Food Security.” Deforestation is also responsible for over 20% of CO2
emissions, which causes a runaway greenhouse effect which
causes global warming that has many devastation effects.
When all of this takes effect, it will not be long before Earth is
uninhabitable and humans will have to evacuate Earth.
“Human Spaceflight Manual, Byline This article was extremely useful for research on evolution of
Should Drive space travel because it explains it very logical opinions on the
Evolution.” timeline space exploration. While the article does not focus
on one specific space threat, it elaborates on the importance
of future space exploration, which one day will save mankind
from the threats that are being researched currently. This
article supports that the evolution of space travel is necessary
to one day save mankind from the inevitable demolition of
Earth.

“Non-Renewable Morse, Elizabeth This article explains how all of the fossil fuels are extracted
Energy.” and how they are used. When one sees how dependent
humans are on nonrenewable energy sources, it is
worrisome since it is inevitable that humans will use all of it
up. Once all of the natural resources are gone, humans will
need to seek out resources from another source for
electricity and fuel. Humans will have to look on asteroids
and other planets and moons for resources.

“What if Earth’s Opfer, Chris This article is useful because it explains the effects of the
Core Cooled cooling of Earth’s core on human life and Earth’s
Down?” atmosphere. It is proven that eventually, the Earth’s core will
cool, so the planet will suffer the effects stated above. One
does not usually think about all of the cool features that Earth
has to offer in order to protect it’s life. The magnetic field
protects humans from many harmful threats and this would
be a reason to protect Earth now as much as possible and
eventually evacuate it. The cooling of the core is inevitable,
which is why humans must revolutionize space craft so that
the species can leave the planet and continue to survive.

“Overpopulation Everything This document was a huge supporting article for my thesis. It
Effects.” Connects goes over in detail all of the negative effects to Earth due to
overpopulation. These would include loss of freshwater,
species extinction, depletion of natural resources, increased
habitat loss, increased epidemics, and increased climate
change. All of these effects of overpopulation are going to
push people to inhabit other celestial bodies and eventually
evacuate earth or atleast make humans a multiple planetary
species.

“What Drives Patenaude, This document supports my thesis because it explains how
Humans to Explore Monique humans are naturally adventurous, and need to explore the
the Unknown?” unknown. The article mentions some of the most well known
explorers, and attempts to explain why humans have a
strong desire to explore from a psychological standpoint.
 Humans will be driven to explore space since no one else
has colonized any of it.

“Water Questions & Perlman, Howard This article goes over how much water the average person
Answers How Much uses per day. This article shows that humans use water for
Water Does the many different tasks throughout the day, and the fact that
Average Person Use fresh and clean water is hard to come by is worrisome.
at Home per Day?” Humans need water for hydration and hygiene. This comes
out to about 80-100 gallons of water per day. Once humans
run out of water, we will have to mine water on the moon, or
get mass amounts of clean water from another source in
order for humanity to survive.

“How Humans Powell, Corey This article is helpful for research because it highlights the
Might Outlive importance of the evolution of space travel and propulsion
Earth, the Sun...and systems. If humans want to survive, they will need to leave
Even the Universe.” Earth and eventually the solar system. The creation of faster
spacecraft is essential for missions to different solar systems
and galaxies. The modern technology and propulsion systems
will not be suitable for thousand year missions, so they will
need to be innovated by aerospace engineers. This article
helps in answering the question: “How will the evolution of
space travel help save mankind?” because it looks so far into
the future and explains what humans will need to do to
survive each stage of the universe’s life until the universe
dies itself.

“Resources in SpaceResources. This article supports my thesis because it assures people

Space.” LU that resources such as metals that are scarce on Earth and
even water can be found on other celestial bodies. The
document exaggerates how important taking advantage of
space resources is to ensure human survival. The author
also stresses how important it is to hurry up and figure out a
way to mine these resources and get them back to Earth to
be used.

“NASA Aims Rivera, Mauricio This article explains the plans in place to extract gases,
Extract Resources water, and metals from Mars’ surface and layers so that we
From Mars.” humans can utilize them for inhabiting Mars or to take them
back to Earth where resources are scarce. Once humans
can successfully and consistently extract resources from
Mars, it will make inhabiting Mars a whole lot easier since we
will then have to carry less on the trip to Mars and will require
less fuel. This will be a pull factor to Mars.

“The Six Natural Ruz, Camila This document goes over a major push factor to leave Earth,
Resources Most and that is the depletion of natural resources. The article also
Drained by Our 7 includes the amount of time we have left before Each
Billion People.” resource runs out (at out current rate of production, which
will in actuality only rise since population is exponentially
increasing as time goes on.) Depletion of these resources
will push us to get resources from other celestial bodies,
which is why this document supports my thesis.

“Deep-Space NASA Salazar, Doris The article is very helpful for research because it explains the
Rocket Engines propulsion technology that is currently being used. Knowing
Perform Most the technology that is already out there is essential to the
Powerful Ignition evolution of the systems, for evolution is essential to deep
Test Yet.” space travel. A lot of weight needs to be transported when
traveling in space. The weight of the rocket itself needs to
escape the gravity of the Earth, but also the astronauts, their
food, water, oxygen, and any other supplies needed to inhabit
or study the place that they are traveling to. The evolution of
rocket propulsion is crucial for the future of space travel
because the amount of thrust is increasing, which will allow
humans to carry the necessary weight to get to the moon or
new planets to eventually save mankind.

“What Would Scharringhausen, This article was very helpful because it supports that
Happen If an Britt asteroids are a legitimate threat to life on Earth, and that it
Asteroid 10 should be addressed. This article supports the fact that it does
Kilometers Across not take a huge asteroid to create a mass extinction. The
Hit the Earth? article would answer the research question: “How would an
(Beginner).” asteroid impact affect Earth?” Since it is proved by this
article that Asteroid impacts are in fact devastating, it will
allow the research process to be taken a step further, and the
question for how these Asteroid impacts can be prevented can
then be researched.

“Ends Of The Schwarz, Rob This article was useful because it teaches about a threat that is
World: Gamma-Ray not often thought about. It is also concerning that there is
Bursts.” nothing at the moment that humans can do to prevent such a
catastrophe. Gamma ray bursts are a significant addition to
potential threats to Earth and gives another reason for space
technology to evolve. In order to increase chances of human
survival, humans will need to venture out and seek a new
home. The longer that humans remain on Earth, the more
likely that Earth will face one of these space threats, and the
more likely that humans will die with the Earth.
“Climate Change Shaftel, Holly This article supports my hypothesis because it goes over a
Causes: A Blanket major push factor, climate change. It mainly focuses on the
around the Earth.” human interference with Earth’s natural greenhouse effect.
This increase in temperature will cause sea levels to rise and
result in the loss of many habitats. This will cause humans to
evacuate Earth and seek a more stable place for life to
flourish.

“Our Sun Is Lighter Siegel, Ethan This article supports my hypothesis because it elaborates on
Than Ever, And The the inevitability of earth becoming uninhabitable due to the
Problem Is Getting expansion of the sun and an increase in energy that the sun
Worse.” produces. One day, the sun will make earth so hot that the
oceans will boil and life will cease to exist. If humans are
alive by this time, we would have to have been off of Earth
for years prior to the sun engulfing our home planet.

“Will Earth Survive Williams, Matt This article also goes over how Earth will change over time
When the Sun due to the sun’s life cycle. The sun will inevitably destroy
Becomes a Red earth because of immense heat, adn humans will need to
Giant?” seek a new home before this takes effect.

“5 Reasons Space Whitwam, Ryan This article pretty much sums up all of the research that I
Exploration Is More have done on why humans will need to evacuate Earth in the
Important Than future. Space exploration could save humans from space
Ever.” threats, colonization is inevitable, space mining could save
the Earth in the near future, and humans are naturally
explorers. Humans do not need to start colonizing other
planets now, but we need to start taking steps to ensure that
we will be prepared to do it when it is necessary.