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No, Mars is pretty easy. Materials are there, solar works as an energy source there, and it's just an extension of known tech. I bet if - for whatever reason it

No, Mars is pretty easy. Materials are there, solar works as an energy source there, and it's just an extension of known tech. I bet if - for whatever reason it became an existential issue - humanity could have habitable base there inside of 10 years. The deepest hole ever dug is not even to the mantle and is less than a foot wide. We could all live in a (modestly) deep cave no problem, but navigating lava is beyond the properties of any known material. It's literally impossible to reach the core. No nanomaterials, no carbon nanotubules, no fusion reactors, no superalloys. I am 100% confident saying that human kind will never reach the center of the Earth.

ta1234567890 7y ago
Like I said, we are here, we can iterate infinitely faster in figuring things out here. The only reason why the Earth's core might seem out of reach to you is because of how little focus and resources have been put into it (compared to colonizing Mars). > I am 100% confident saying that human kind will never reach the center of the Earth Well, that is your own personal opinion. And in my personal opinion, it sounds very pessimistic. We can definitely do it, and we might not even need to drill any holes. We just need to get excited about it and go for it.
- depressedpanda 7y ago
  I don't understand why you are so insistent on getting to the core? On the topic of surviving extinction level events, it may very well be that researching how to live deep down indefinitely is a much better way to spend resources than researching how to survive Mars. But for some reason you are arguing about going to the core -- which is so far beyond our current technology level that we may as well consider it scientifically impossible for now.
  - ta1234567890 7y ago
    > I don't understand why you are so insistent on getting to the core? > -- which is so far beyond our current technology level that we may as well consider it scientifically impossible for now. That's exactly it. Going to space or Mars, were impossible dreams for hundreds or thousands of years, now we have robots and satellites over there. If we don't dream about going to the core, we will never get there. Big challenges make us dream big and work hard to accomplish them. Also, despite now seeming so hard, I bet there's tons of low hanging fruit discoveries just waiting to happen. Have you seen a diagram of the inside of Earth? It's just laughable, especially if you compare that to the level of detail that we have of Earth's surface, or even the Martian surface.
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ta1234567890 7y ago

Like I said, we are here, we can iterate infinitely faster in figuring things out here. The only reason why the Earth's core might seem out of reach to you is because of how little focus and resources have been put into it (compared to colonizing Mars). > I am 100% confident saying that human kind will never reach the center of the Earth Well, that is your own personal opinion. And in my personal opinion, it sounds very pessimistic. We can definitely do it, and we might not even need to drill any holes. We just need to get excited about it and go for it.

depressedpanda 7y ago
I don't understand why you are so insistent on getting to the core? On the topic of surviving extinction level events, it may very well be that researching how to live deep down indefinitely is a much better way to spend resources than researching how to survive Mars. But for some reason you are arguing about going to the core -- which is so far beyond our current technology level that we may as well consider it scientifically impossible for now.
- ta1234567890 7y ago
  > I don't understand why you are so insistent on getting to the core? > -- which is so far beyond our current technology level that we may as well consider it scientifically impossible for now. That's exactly it. Going to space or Mars, were impossible dreams for hundreds or thousands of years, now we have robots and satellites over there. If we don't dream about going to the core, we will never get there. Big challenges make us dream big and work hard to accomplish them. Also, despite now seeming so hard, I bet there's tons of low hanging fruit discoveries just waiting to happen. Have you seen a diagram of the inside of Earth? It's just laughable, especially if you compare that to the level of detail that we have of Earth's surface, or even the Martian surface.
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