How might we protect ourselves from volcanoes?

Put a lid over the top of the volcano

Put heat and smoke detectors on top of mountains – and set up an early warning system

Build a big moat around the volcano

Divert the lava flow using channels, dams and walls

Build super high powered fire extinguishers and a fire service staffed by robots

Design special protective clothing for people living or going near volcanoes

How might humans live on Mars in the future?

Design faster rockets (so that the journey takes 7 days not 7 months) or invent time travel

Use a workforce of robots to build a city on Mars for humans to live in

Build a pipeline all the way from Earth to Mars to transport food, water and oxygen

Land a space station on Mars and explore the planet from that

Design special suits for people to wear on Mars that generate oxygen to breathe

Search Mars for water – look underground

How might we explain what the world would be like without rock?

No fossil record – no knowledge of dinosaurs and evolution

Need a new covering over the Earth – to protect us from boiling magma

Mainly wooden housing (risk of ‘great fire of the world’). Have to rebuild Rosendale

No coal and oil

The natural environment would look completely different – no hills and mountains, no rocks in gardens

No roads and pavements

We would have to do without all sorts of everyday things – pencils, chalk, medicines, jewellery and much more

How might we learn from the extinction of the dinosaurs to safeguard our own future ?

Use other planets and moons to block a meteorite heading for the Earth

Fire a rocket into a meteorite heading towards Earth to send it off course

Make sure that we do not pollute and poison the environment

Could a giant sea monster (as we read about in myths) jump out of the water and swallow a meteorite before it crashed into the Earth?

Build underwater cities to live in if the environment above sea becomes too polluted

Build a protective shield over the Earth