> Terraforming Mars is quick and easy ... Ahhhhhh..... > ... compared to flying to a more habitable planet. Ah, OK, right, agreed completely. Very good point

> Terraforming Mars is quick and easy ... Ahhhhhh..... > ... compared to flying to a more habitable planet. Ah, OK, right, agreed completely. Very good point. And both are wildly misrepresented as to their difficulty. Terraforming Mars is how many times more difficult than not destroying Terra? Billion? Trillion? Exillion? "It's OK for us to destroy Terra, we can "simply" find another planet to live on and if not we'll simply Terraform a planet that is uninhabitable." That's the philosophy this Laureate is speaking against, and it's clearly a delusional philosophy held by millions including the shyster sociopath Elon Musk and every last one of the fanatical devotees of his deranged and unscientific cult. How can anyone believe they are going to travel vast distances to some hostile alien planet carrying a minimalist cargo to not just reboot civilization but terraform the planet to begin with, and succeed, when they have no ability to survive on a planet that in every way is completely dedicated and attuned to the optimal survival of their kind? What hubris and madness in such a belief. Comparably one might find they are incapable of living on a tropical island with fertile fruit trees and abundant fish and announce that they intend to move to Antarctica and transform it into a tropical paradise using vines and coconuts lashed together on a raft. It's utterly delusional. Believers in the madness should be committed to asylums for the insane, if they can take a moment away from their busy schedule of gulping down drugs and accusing cave rescuers in Thailand of being pedophiles.