Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars
by everdev on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @07:35PM
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Depends on your horizon, but if you look at how fast humanity progressed in 2,000 or even 500 years, I think a recovery from a million+ people in a few thousand years is very realistic, especially if knowledge is adequately recovered through books.
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Re:Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars
by dotancohen on Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:37AM
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Only up until the technical level of the industrial revolution. Getting past that would require easy access to an easy to use energy source, i.e. fossil fuels. None of which are left. Today we dig kilometers under the seabed to access energy. A society just entering the industrial revolution will have not the knowledge, tools, or materials to do that.