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> Even a "small" eruption of a super volcano will change the climate significantly for decades. This helps motivates Elon Musk's desire to be a multi-planetary
by microtherion 9y ago
> Even a "small" eruption of a super volcano will change the climate significantly for decades. This helps motivates Elon Musk's desire to be a multi-planetary species.
But even the biggest conceivable eruption will leave Earth infinitely more habitable than any other known celestial body.
- Houshalter 9y agoExactly. It would be far far easier to build self sufficient colonies in Antarctica, or under the ocean, or even remote deserts. We don't even have the technology to do that yet. They couldn't even get the biosphere to work.
- gebeeson 9y agoAbsolutely. We are already here.