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> To learn as much as possible before you irreversibly change it. That's valuable too. But Mars's main value to humanity will be as a second home, not as a geo
by avar 16y ago
> To learn as much as possible before you irreversibly change it.
That's valuable too. But Mars's main value to humanity will be as a second home, not as a geologic curiosity.
We'll be much more secure as a species if we have a second planet where we can walk outside and breathe the air, even if the temperature will be stuck at ~250K.
- Oxryly 16y agoGet a head start ruining a second planet because we're going to finish ruining our first pretty soon..? ;)
- sigstoat 16y agoSo... we ruined this planet by making it less habitable, and we'd ruin Mars by making it more habitable? I take it we're supposed to leave the entirety of the universe exactly as it happened to be before we realized that we're capable of rearranging very tiny little bits of it?
- hugh3 16y agoThere is some value to this argument if Mars turns out to have life on it. If this is the cas we should definitely hold off on the terraforming, which is why I hope it isn't. Otherwise: heck, it's just a rock, let's go nuts.