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So, what can we do about Yellowstone, and what should we do? I suppose preparation, including protection and then self sustainability within that protection. B

So, what can we do about Yellowstone, and what should we do? I suppose preparation, including protection and then self sustainability within that protection. But that seems like a huge investment for something that likely won't happen in our lifetimes. Are we better off using our resources to become an interplanetary species, where the fate of earth has less of an impact?

ryanmercer 7y ago
> But that seems like a huge investment for something that likely won't happen in our lifetimes The thing is a lot of the preparations would have multiple use scenarios. Bad hurricanes, bad earthquakes, bad eruptions, asteroid impact, nuclear exchange, conventional war relief, massive flooding, significant crop failure.
- perl4ever 7y ago
  Living on earth, there's always a fallback option, right back to the stone age. On some other planet, at least in the solar system, there isn't going to be any lower tech option when something high tech fails. One widget that you can't produce locally fails and everybody is dead. So I can't see how a colony ever becomes self-sufficient, at least without some "magical" future technology that amounts to enhanced biology.