Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
by United857 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:41PM
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> He's a leader in fighting the fire and also spending half of his time on the new house.
Why not both? It's not too hard to see how in the long-term, Tesla and Solarcity's progress are relevant to the needs of living on Mars as well (ground vehicle propulsion, electric power generation and storage...)
Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
by JBReefer on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @04:59PM
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Fires burn too fast for this analogy to work. Even in the worst climate change cases, we have a very long time to work out how to get off the planet.
It would be great to avoid, but moving people out of coastal cities certainly has a precedence, and there's plenty of land in Kansas, the Taiga, etc. Life would be tougher than today, but it's not an existential thread.
Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
by erikpukinskis on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @08:28PM
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I think there's a pretty high probability that such a migration would be accompanied by quite a lot of genocide and war.
Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
by JBReefer on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:00PM
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What, NYC vs Rockland county? That wouldn't be a genocide, it would be a zoning argument. Same as Miami vs Georgia.
If waves lap up against my place in Queens, I'm not going to start killing my neighbors. I'm going to move to a Minnesota with better weather.
But we are in such a critical moment right now in terms of our ability to really destroy the ecology we depend on. It's like there a small fire started in the bathroom and some of us have chosen this moment to start planning a new vacation home.
For Elon Musk personally, he's so involved in the shift away from carbon through his work at Tesla that it feels like it balances out. He's a leader in fighting the fire and also spending half of his time on the new house. But in general I can't really commend the aerospace engineers working on problems like this when we are so close to being able to fix so many age old problems on Earth.
This is such a critical couple of decades for Earth technology.