Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars

Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by vkou on Monday July 30, 2018 @06:35PM (#17648781)

If keeping an offsite backup only let you back up 0.001% of your data, and cost you 1x of your annual revenue, your employer wouldn't keep one either.

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by Anarch157a on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:32PM (#17649199)

Our data is in our DNA. A population of a few thousand would pretty much guarantee a 100% backup.

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by vkou on Monday July 30, 2018 @08:11PM (#17649450)

So, it's not a backup. It's a document containing basic instructions for how to eventually build a database that's similar to your PROD copy.

I wouldn't pay through the nose for that, either. Especially when we could be putting that time and energy into not losing the PROD deployment, today, with a much better ROI.

We don't need to worry about hypothetical 50-million year meteor strike extinction events. We're in the middle of one, that we could be taking action to deal with - for much less the cost of a self-sufficient Mars base.

You're worried about off-site backups, when the trash can in the data center is on fire, and you cant budget for a fire extinguisher.

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by enraged_camel on Monday July 30, 2018 @10:04PM (#17649989)

>>I wouldn't pay through the nose for that, either. Especially when we could be putting that time and energy into not losing the PROD deployment, today, with a much better ROI.

There are certain types of disasters you can't protect against though, no matter how much money you spend. The only thing you can do is mitigate.

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by d0lph on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:42PM (#17655246)

A backup of humanity.

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by rossdavidh on Monday July 30, 2018 @06:55PM (#17648941)

I would say it's more like keeping a zip file of your data. It may not be as usable, but if you lose your primary you can reinflate it and it will do just fine.

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by bdamm on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:26PM (#17649144)

The water bears can re-inflate and the future of life on earth will be some other evolutionary tract. No worries mate. Why is humanity so important anyway?

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by chriskanan on Monday July 30, 2018 @08:39PM (#17649610)

Some theories posit that Earth may contain the only life nearby (or possibly in the universe) [0]. Since we are the only space faring species on our planet, the water bears would need our help to preserve their genetic record. Life on Earth has less than 2 billion years left, but the universe in general has a lot more than that left.

https://www.space.com/41080-alien-life-may-be-rare-today.htm...

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by limaoscarjuliet on Monday July 30, 2018 @08:26PM (#17649535)

It's the towels.

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by cm2187 on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @03:08AM (#17651136)

If we die, does it matter to us than the human species survives somewhere? Like if it’s not going to protect me, why should it matter that much to me that I should support the effort?

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by posting2fast on Monday July 30, 2018 @09:17PM (#17649783)

Not if you the data loss is caused by an error or virus in the software, and you use that same software to access your "backup".

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