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How about we stop wrecking the terrestrial ecosystem then worry about making other places habitable.
by tempguy9999 7y ago
How about we stop wrecking the terrestrial ecosystem then worry about making other places habitable.
- thejohnconway 7y agoApart from the fact that humanity can think about more than one thing at a time, thinking about this stuff will probably give us ideas for how to (counter)terraform earth.
- tempguy9999 7y agoI don't know about your 2nd point but to your first, I fear that though it's true, it is not an as well but an instead; we're thinking about other things so as to block out what we face now.
- mempko 7y agoNot sure why you are being downvoted. It's sad to say, but we are not going to terraform Mars. Why? Because that requires organized human life on earth first and the way we are going, it's a real question whether we will maintain civilization.
- tempguy9999 7y ago> it's a real question whether we will maintain civilization Sadly I'm becoming steadily more convinced that I know the answer. The irony is, if humans dealt with reality on a rational basis we'd have far fewer of these sunny sci-fi articles, but a vastly better chance of them actually happening.
- zanmat0 7y agoAgreed, the amount of resources, time and technology required to save this planet are minuscule compared to terraforming a distant inhospitable place.