Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars

Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by wtetzner on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:16PM (#17648119)

> Except Antarctica is on Earth. The point of colonizing an off-world body is so that we can spread ourselves out.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why? I mean, I understand why each individual human wants to survive, and I understand wanting to ensure people have a good quality of life. But why is preserving the species in the event of disaster important?

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by bbojan on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:52PM (#17648451)

Because we could easily be the only technological (other people like to use the term "intelligent") species in the Universe?

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by Cerium on Monday July 30, 2018 @06:18PM (#17648662)

If that is true then there would be nobody to miss us when we are gone.

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by jobigoud on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:41PM (#17650375)

If live long enough and prosper we will speciate.

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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars by everdev on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:04AM (#17650656)

We're here, we might as well play the game as long as we can.

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