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Right. Personally, barring nuclear or bio warfare, I'm quite confident we can figure out how to geoengineer the Earth AND settle into Mars within 500 million y
by dheera 4y ago
Right.
Personally, barring nuclear or bio warfare, I'm quite confident we can figure out how to geoengineer the Earth AND settle into Mars within 500 million years, considering we've come from cavemen to today's technology in only 10000-50000 years.
What worries me is actually after about 3 or 4 billion, where no level of geoengineering can make any of the inner planets of the solar system habitable, and with the red giant sun spewing out chunks of burning crap all over, Jupiter's and Saturn's moons aren't particularly safe either.
- yreg 4y agoSpace megastructures are probably easier and faster to build than terraforming Mars. With the added benefit of not jumping into another gravity well.
- dheera 4y agoHmm how do you repair those megastructures without a planet that you can mine resources (metal, silicon, ...) from?
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoAsteroids.
- m4rtink 4y agoIf you are still sitting in just the Solar System in a milion years, let alone thousand, something went horribly wrong. Or we got some interesting neighbors. ;-)
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