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I don’t know, it seems like planning on mitigating/averting an asteroid is a much easier engineering problem to solve compared to establishing a self-sustaining
by bumby 3y ago
I don’t know, it seems like planning on mitigating/averting an asteroid is a much easier engineering problem to solve compared to establishing a self-sustaining civilization on an otherwise inhospitable planet.
- zamadatix 3y agoWe definitely shouldn't give up on averting the catastrophes we know just because we've got a plan B but at the same time we shouldn't give up on a plan B just because we think we can avert a particular catastrophe. At the end of the day "self-sustaining civilization in an already inhospitable and isolated place" is probably more about showing we've already managed to find a way to eek out under pretty much any situation than it is particularly about Mars itself. To be honest life on Mars would be significantly crappier for probably decades upon decades - but at least we'd prove out the floor and our ability to raise it over time instead of assuming we'll figure things out before our assumption where we are will always be supportive to us falls through for whatever reason.
- wombatpm 3y agoWhen you don’t fund plan A, plan B becomes plan A
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoEarth will itself become inhospitable, assuming that we can survive on this planet as a species for so long.