Re:The SpaceX Starship is a big deal
by tomphoolery on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:35AM
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The idea of exploring and possibly colonizing other worlds has nothing to do with our ecology and everything to do with the fact that a comet could hit earth and destroy our entire species at any moment and we wouldn't really have enough time to react properly. Add planets to your species and you reduce the chances that your entire civilization could be gone in an instance.
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They both require certain degrees of geo-engineering, even if the scopes are entirely different.
I find it amusing that people who think 2-4 degrees over decades is an insurmountable problem, but creating an entire hospitable atmosphere on another planet is doable.