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On interstellar travel realities: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high-frontier-redux.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2
by jodrellblank 7y ago
On interstellar travel realities: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high-frontier-redux.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the-high... - aka it’s not happening soon.
And for terraforming Mars, Isaac Arthur’s YouTube channel has many related videos, and he posits that by the time your civilisation could do it, it would be a wasteful use of Mars when it could be better disassembled and turned into O’Neill cylinders or something.
But coming over a crater or valley on Mars and transforming it into something habitable would be enormously easier than travelling 12 ly.