Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012)

Re:Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012) by jammygit on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @07:26PM (#20046790)

The biotech to terraform (or live under domes sustainably) is a longer ways off though. All the attempts to create biodomes I’ve read about have either failed or cheated on a large scale.

Unless we have an Asimov-esque robot driven “colonization”, but does that fully count?

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Re:Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012) by Mirioron on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:58PM (#20047687)

You mean caves instead of domes, right? You need protection against radiation and rock provides a lot more of that.

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Re:Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012) by rotexo on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:24PM (#20052820)

I think the parent was talking about all of the ecosystem services we take for granted on Earth that we still don’t know that we can reproduce artificially.

The fires in California this past fall? That represented a lot going wrong, but you could still go outside in the Bay Area and breathe.

On Mars or in space? Everything goes perfectly except for one little thing, and you are dead instantaneously.

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