Terraform? LOL
If we can't fix this planet, what hope of creating another? Maybe we could teleport there.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 23 Sep 2021, 0:16,
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What we've learned by heating up Earth would work just as well at heating up Mars.
Still got the air pressure problem too, and the cosmic rays, and everything is poisonous, but none of those problems is insurmountable.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 23 Sep 2021, 0:58,
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Bollocks
We haven't even understood the role and identity of all common soil organisms here yet.
Fuck we barely understand the nervous system and microbiome of our own digestive system. Let alone correctly reproducing soils on another planet.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 23 Sep 2021, 3:44,
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Balls to your bollocks. We understand how to heat up a planet.
You're presenting arbitrary gaps in our knowledge of biology as a functional roadblock to the feasibility of terraforming.
We can engineer algae/bacteria that would thrive on Mars. I think it would be an act of self sabotage to not do this. Imagine having the ability to spread life through the universe and choosing not to.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 23 Sep 2021, 20:42,
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If we cannot fix a serviceable planet, what makes you so sure we can make a new one?
I'm a pragmatist not an idealist in this. There are so many unknowns, I can't say it is impossible of course.
As for spreading life, that's a little like saying because someone can have kids, they should.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 24 Sep 2021, 1:07,
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In reverse order:
No it really isn't anything like that.
Robert Zubrin is a pragmatist too, listen to what he says about colonising Mars.
Because the problems Mars has are solvable by employing the very methods used to create the problems on Earth. Mars is an industrialist's dream, a planet that gets nicer the more greenhouse gasses you release into it.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 24 Sep 2021, 15:10,
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No doubt its been done as I doubt this is original
An exoplanet in the habitable zone like Kepler 22b is found in a near future in which we're able to establish that it would be habitable. Competing nations rush to send a mission to it on the grounds that first there gets first dibs and potentially could end up with an entire planet as an extension of their nation state. Twist though is that it takes so long to travel there that its a multi-generational voyage and when they arrive they find that the planet was populated centuries before by a competing nation that developed faster space travel in the intervening time.
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Sounds like the basis of a good story.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 23 Sep 2021, 15:57,
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