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I dont have fixes, I don't know where that idea crossed your mind. I see this as the likely path forward. It is not a fix, it is essentially the car careening
by intended 8y ago
I dont have fixes, I don't know where that idea crossed your mind.
I see this as the likely path forward. It is not a fix, it is essentially the car careening off the cliff and people the survivors picking up and moving on.
Could you let me know what was confusing in my text? I'll fix it up.
- jacquesm 8y ago> Instead the highest probable path I see is a husk of a planet and us figuring out a way to reintroduce life after terraforming is complete. Terraforming is fantasy. Reintroducing life is a process that takes eons and is on the scale of the Gods, not of us mortals. We have a functioning planet with a well developed eco-system, we do not have a back-up and we do not have the abilities you ascribe to us. We would not be around to do any of the things you describe because this is all we have and when it goes we go with it.
- intended 8y agoOk. Excellent - I too think that terraforming is dubious practical use. I put it forward for two reasons - To leaven the bleakness and because pursuit terraforming is inevitable. It’s just the perfect PR product. Spend money; create jobs, fix the environment.
- frabbit 8y agoWe have a functioning planet with a well developed eco-system, we do not have a back-up What is so hard for people to grasp about this concept? We have an incredible thing here, it would be impossible to engineer something like it in its vast complexity. Why would you not try to maintain this complex machinery and avoid throwing it out of kilter? It's like watching parrots trying to run a fusion reactor.