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A comment on The Argument Against Terraforming Mars (2016). Parent comment

Re:The Argument Against Terraforming Mars (2016) by andai on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:17AM (#14481091)
That's a good point and something the article doesn't mention: creating a stable colony off planet effectively cuts in half our risk of extinction due to impacts, supervolcanoes / god knows what horrors.
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Re:The Argument Against Terraforming Mars (2016) by gehwartzen on Sunday June 04, 2017 @10:47PM (#14484977)
What if the other colony evolves into something other than humans, the two groups becoming distinct species? Will it have been a waste?
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Re:The Argument Against Terraforming Mars (2016) by monochromatic on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:55AM (#14481301)
It does a lot better than cutting it in half.
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Re:The Argument Against Terraforming Mars (2016) by andai on Sunday June 04, 2017 @05:19PM (#14483560)
Oh right. The chance of two simultaneous catastrophic events is ... the chance of one multiplied by itself, not by two!
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Re:The Argument Against Terraforming Mars (2016) by monochromatic on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:52AM (#14481277)
Can you not
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