Will understanding what is in the Earth’s core (and those of other terrestrial planets), help us in possibly being able

Question: Will understanding what is in the Earth's core (and those of other terrestrial planets), help us in possibly being able to move to them, adapt to them, and live on them when the Sun grows into a Red Giant and swallows the Earth?
- Keywords:
  core,
  earth,
  end of the world,
  planet,
  sun
Asked by [▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿]#JoinTomBoy[▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿] TGS to Lidunka on 15 Jun 2015.
- Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 15 Jun 2015:
  
  @ [▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿]#JoinTomBoy[▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿] TGS Ha! well I suppose the answer is yes – the more you understand about planetary cores, the more you understand about things like magnetic fields, plate tectonics, heat flow and more. We would want to move to a planet with some magnetic field (for protection from harmful rays of the sun), and one that could potentially have water and therefore life (a possible consequence of plate tectonics).

[▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿]#JoinTomBoy[▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿] TGS commented on 15 Jun 2015:

Interesting! Thanks 🙂

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Question: Will understanding what is in the Earth's core (and those of other terrestrial planets), help us in possibly being able to move to them, adapt to them, and live on them when the Sun grows into a Red Giant and swallows the Earth?