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Re:Why Not Mars by sio8ohPi on Monday January 02, 2023 @04:23AM (#34216002)
Human civilization is only 5000 years old; Homo Sapiens is 300,000 years old. We have 5,000,000,000 years to plan for this eventuality.
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Re:Why Not Mars by moloch-hai on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:24AM (#34216355)
Warning: only 500,000,000 years.
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Re:Why Not Mars by Ygg2 on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:58AM (#34216569)
Warning: only 499,999,999 years.
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Re:Why Not Mars by antonvs on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:48AM (#34216521)
The Sun will make Earth uninhabitable long, long before it becomes a red giant.

We have a lot less than one billion years. After that, the oceans start to boil.

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Re:Why Not Mars by webXL on Monday January 02, 2023 @02:35PM (#34222552)
I'm inclined to agree, but can you please clarify "a lot less than one billion"?
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Re:Why Not Mars by m4rtink on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:11AM (#34216644)
Not really - we now have the technological and resource window and we should use it. Wasting this opportunity could otherwise doom us forever if we can't get back to this level of capability again.
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Re:Why Not Mars by lapcat on Monday January 02, 2023 @08:29AM (#34217601)
This would make a lot of sense... if you were talking about addressing global warming of Earth, rather than talking about going to Mars.
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