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I read a report that wasn't sponsored by the gov. It suggested most of our fears of climate changes are null. Mainly it suggested our current velocity of techno
by jasonless 7y ago
I read a report that wasn't sponsored by the gov. It suggested most of our fears of climate changes are null. Mainly it suggested our current velocity of technology advancement can propel us off of planet earth. I guess it's suggesting as the climate heat increases its marginal bc we can simply leave the planet and go to another. If we look at the work elon musk this isn't too far away - the article claimed. I'll try to find the URL. So I guess everything will be ok.
- throwaway5752 7y agoThat doesn't work on first principles with the ballistic equation with the current population. Just go to http://what-if.xkcd.com http://what-if.xkcd.com and do some of the type of back of envelope math of the energy requirements. He might actually have that specific example debunked on one of them. No technological development will change the shape of Earth's gravity well or e=mc^2. edit: https://what-if.xkcd.com/7/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/7/
- jniedrauer 7y agoYes, great solution to the problem. Let the fate of the human race rest on a single billionaire's personal project. Let's also not consider the fact that there is no physical way to shuttle humans off of planet earth fast enough to even keep up with reproduction rates.
- sachdevap 7y agoEdited for politeness: This comment make no sense to me. Earth is the only planet we have for the foreseeable future (a couple of centuries at least).
- dang 7y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by making the thread still worse. That helps nothing. Instead, you can flag egregious comments, as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
- sachdevap 7y agoEdited.
- sachdevap 7y agoI imagine that you had flagged my comment. I'd have appreciated the courtesy of unflagging it after it follows the guidelines.
- dang 7y agoHappy to. I only saw this by accident though. If you want us to see something, it's best to send it to hn@ycombinator.com. (That's in the guidelines too!)
- asdfman123 7y agoYes, and many people thought we'd have flying cars and live in space by now, but future predictions don't always come true.
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- UncleMeat 7y agoSurely if we can't geoengineer our own planet to stay at the same temperature there there is no freaking way we could geoengineer mars.