Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars
by vkou on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:57PM
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> I think the Mars hype might be a symptom of some sort of societal anxiety and recognition that we are 50-100 years out or less from an extraordinary and preventable tragedy.
This cannot be understated. For the resources we would throw away trying to build a self-sustaining Mars colony, as a lifeline for a few thousand people, after a one-in-fifty-million-years extinction event, we could probably prevent a climate catastrophe on Earth.
Not a hypothetical one-in-a-million-years climate catastrophe - but rather, one that we are right in the middle of.
This cannot be understated. For the resources we would throw away trying to build a self-sustaining Mars colony, as a lifeline for a few thousand people, after a one-in-fifty-million-years extinction event, we could probably prevent a climate catastrophe on Earth.
Not a hypothetical one-in-a-million-years climate catastrophe - but rather, one that we are right in the middle of.