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This is a really interesting read. If we’re willing to live afloat, we can begin with Ocean Cities of Earth and expand to Cloud Cities of Venus as necessary. M
by cnees 7y ago
This is a really interesting read. If we’re willing to live afloat, we can begin with Ocean Cities of Earth and expand to Cloud Cities of Venus as necessary.
Mars might still be easier to terraform than Venus, if we develop the technology, so maybe that’s part of why it became the focus. But if we could terraform Mars, perhaps we could just reterraform Earth.
- citboin 7y agoWe can’t “just reterraform Earth” because there are too many people, governments, processes and institutions working against that goal. If the goal is to terraform Mars then we need to do it quickly before there is organized resistance from scientists who think of Mars as a Petri dish, not a potential home
- AstralStorm 7y agoWe simply do not have resources for any quick terraforming plan, even on Earth. Soil recovery is very hard, for example, on manageable timeframes.