

"I think we definitely should be looking," McBride said. Elon Musk is working on that right now."įor Danny McBride, who plays the ship's exuberant pilot Tennessee, the search for alien life is more a matter of curiosity than necessity. "I think Mars is going to be the next destination," Fassbender said. Waterston's co-star Michael Fassbender, who portrays the androids David and Walter, added that damage to our planet necessitating a move elsewhere might be inevitable. But I am fascinated by the possibility of what else is out there." It makes a good argument for trying to save our planet. "It can be powerful enough to destroy us. "If we trash this planet to the point that we have to go to other places to live, we may find those places, a hospitable planet to sustain human life, but we don't know what we will find there," Waterston said. She agreed that space colonization may soon become a risky necessity. In the new film, Katherine Waterston plays terraforming expert Daniels, who fights the iconic Xenomorph. Katherine Waterston portrays the Xenomorph-fighting heroine Daniels in "Alien: Covenant." Mark Rogers/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. However, if terraforming were possible, the planet could eventually become quite comfortable to live on. The first explorers would have to protect themselves against extreme radiation and face freezing temperatures while dealing with the lack of oxygen in the atmosphere. Living on Mars currently would be quite a challenge. Scott added that Mars, which is known to have decent water resources, could provide a suitable next home for humanity. And even if we temporarily stop global warming, the sun will eventually become so big that it will scorch the Earth either way (although that is still millions of years away). In the movie, the Covenant spaceship is on a mission to establish a new human colony on a distant habitable planet in the time when Earth is no longer able to sustain human life, as could occur if the planet continues to warm beyond safe levels. The Covenant spacecraft seen in "Alien: Covenant." The science fiction film's cast says colonizing space will be risky, but necessary for humanity.
