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> It will always be many orders of magnitude easier to terraform Earth, even after we screwed it up, than trying to terraform Mars. It's many orders of magnitu
by ke88y 4y ago
> It will always be many orders of magnitude easier to terraform Earth, even after we screwed it up, than trying to terraform Mars.
It's many orders of magnitude easier to afford a $100,000,000 home if you make $10,000 per year than if you only make $1 per year.
But you're never going to afford that home either way.
- replygirl 4y agoWe reversed the Chicago River 120 years ago, protected the Netherlands from flooding for centuries, blasted out the bed of the East River to make New York one of the most successful ports in history, laid at least one canal through every major ithsmus, and built dozens of reservoirs and irrigation systems into every hydrological ecosystem that touches a major population center. That's just water projects.
- gus_massa 4y ago> We reversed the Chicago River 120 years ago I had never heard that. More info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River
- ke88y 4y agoNone of these are even remotely close to terraforming.
- ask_b123 4y agoWhat is an isthmus? Do the Pyrenees count as one? Tehuantepec?
- Ma8ee 4y agoCertainly. What I was trying to say was that the notion of terraforming Mars as an escape when we screwed up here is absurd.