Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research?

Re:Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research? by carleverett on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:44PM (#11000538)

At the risk of being too ambitious, I would absolutely love to see YCR fund research on terraforming Mars. Based on the recent climate change data here Earth[1], this is important for 2 reasons:

1) We might be in a position of needing a new home sooner than expected

2) Humans seem to be better at affecting global environments than we originally thought

It can only help us to have a better understanding of what a realistic budget and timeline for terraforming would be.

[1] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201513

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Re:Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research? by HappyFunTime on Saturday January 30, 2016 @06:11AM (#11001472)

Resources allocated to interplanetary redundancy enhance the survival of the people "over there" at the cost of you being more likely to die "here." I prefer to amplify the chance I and my loved ones survive, instead of splitting 4's at the blackjack table. Also, you shouldn't be sitting at the blackjack table.

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Re:Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research? by shrikrishna on Saturday January 30, 2016 @12:14AM (#11000627)

Let me go one step further: why not research terraforming Earth, to figure out how to undo the damage we're doing to the climate?

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