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<cynical response>I wonder what historical and eons-old natural wonder on Mars we're going to ruin when we start driving around on it in a fleet of Tesla Model
by bigiain 9y ago
<cynical response>I wonder what historical and eons-old natural wonder on Mars we're going to ruin when we start driving around on it in a fleet of Tesla Model S and growing potatoes by burning surplus rocket fuel?
- Waterluvian 9y agoI understand the concern but I just see it as two equal choices: preserve what's there or make something new. Perhaps easier to understand if it's "let's take some time to understand what's there before we go make something new." Surely this is an unapproved perspective. It goes against the popular will of science and really goes against our inherent desire not to muck stuff up. I just can't bring myself to really see it being wrong.
- bigiain 9y agoYeah - the 13 year old scifi reading nerd in me would prefer we build a Dyson Sphere or a Niven Ring - I'd mind much less about environmentally fucking up something we built ourselves... (The downside being that probably requires dismantling both Mars and Earth for construction materials... But hey - we've fucked The Great Barrier Reef already, so why not???)