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We can't even terraform the Earth.

• chii 6y ago
  we are terraforming the earth - see how much co2 is being pumped out!
  • ncmncm 6y ago
    It is being prepared for species better adapted to high temperatures than us.
  • k3liutZu 6y ago
    Since we're trying to move _away_ from "terra", should we call the current state maybe "marsforming"?
    • tsimionescu 6y ago
      Terraforming refers to 'turning another planet into a second terra'. Marsforming would be 'turning the planet into a second Mars', which wouldn't be particularly useful, since we can't live on Mars anyway.
      • flawi 6y ago
        The joke they're making is that since we are in the process of turning the Earth into a second Mars, we should be calling what we are doing now marsforming.
        • chii 6y ago
          i think you'll find that venus is the place with the runaway greenhouse effect, not mars!
        • tsimionescu 6y ago
          Whoosh... Sorry
    • thaumasiotes 6y ago
      The combining form would be marti-. (Compare "Martian".)
    • scatters 6y ago
      We're going towards Venus rather than Mars, though. So "veneraforming".