Re:Mars Colonization Will Never Happen
by downrightmike on Saturday July 09, 2022 @02:16PM
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It would only take a few hundred years to turn Venus into a pretty close Earth analog. It has issues to be dealt with, but would really have much more resources available that Mars. Even solar power would be more viable on Venus than Mars. Plus it would give us a good midway point to start planet harvesting Mercury if we wanted it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI&t=606s
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A few hundred years? With what technology? We can’t deliberately terraform this planet in that time period and we don’t have to launch millions of tons of equipment off the planet to do it.
Going from “Some planet has these chemicals in its atmosphere or crust” to “We can make it earth-like” is a huge leap that just gets waved away. We can’t extract fresh water from the ocean economically at scale yet. So far we’ve had lots of failed attempts to land even small probes on Venus.
With that level of technology and industrial capacity, we could just build a few tens of thousands of orbitals far more cheaply.
Re:Mars Colonization Will Never Happen
by CogitoCogito on Saturday July 09, 2022 @03:54PM
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I just watched that video and only have one question: are you being serious?