Re:CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first ...
by lm28469 on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:43PM
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>a moon base would cost upwards of 20 billion USD.
It doesn;t have much to do with the original topic, but I think you're way underestimating it.
Re:CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first ...
by 0xffff2 on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:12PM
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"A moon base" meaning what in this context? I'm guessing it means a NASA research based designed to host no more than a dozen astronauts at a time. That number is basically meaningless when it comes to colonization. We simply don't have the technology to establish an independent colony on the moon. We might be able to do it on Mars, but it will cost trillions of dollars.
a moon base would cost upwards of 20 billion USD.
the increase in the US military budget for FY2018 is 58 billion USD, bringing it to a total of 639 billion USD. that's just for FY2018. there is currently no world war.
> Do we even have the raw resources on earth / the tech to move everyone to a new planet and terraform it before we're all toast ?
no one mentioned anything about terraforming or moving people in this thread. i made a comment regarding finite resources, which aren't finite if you just look at the sky instead of the ground.