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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".