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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by dheera on Saturday January 14, 2023 @06:58PM (#34385345)
Right.

Personally, barring nuclear or bio warfare, I'm quite confident we can figure out how to geoengineer the Earth AND settle into Mars within 500 million years, considering we've come from cavemen to today's technology in only 10000-50000 years.

What worries me is actually after about 3 or 4 billion, where no level of geoengineering can make any of the inner planets of the solar system habitable, and with the red giant sun spewing out chunks of burning crap all over, Jupiter's and Saturn's moons aren't particularly safe either.

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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by yreg on Saturday January 14, 2023 @08:16PM (#34385789)
Space megastructures are probably easier and faster to build than terraforming Mars. With the added benefit of not jumping into another gravity well.
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by dheera on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:24PM (#34391646)
Hmm how do you repair those megastructures without a planet that you can mine resources (metal, silicon, ...) from?
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday January 15, 2023 @03:28PM (#34392987)
Asteroids.
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by m4rtink on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:06AM (#34386886)
If you are still sitting in just the Solar System in a milion years, let alone thousand, something went horribly wrong. Or we got some interesting neighbors. ;-)
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Re:NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Suc... by r3trohack3r on Sunday January 15, 2023 @04:00PM (#34393326)
> cavemen to today's technology in only 10000-50000 years.

Honestly more impressive is us shedding the 4 element theory of nature and the infallible ancient knowledge of Greece in the mid 1600’s (The Sceptical Chymist was published in 1661). We went from a fairly static view of knowledge to seriously considering colonizing mars in 400 or so years. Human growth isn’t linear and we are pretty far to the right on an exponential curve. The thing about sitting on an exponential curve as far to the right as we are is a few steps (a few 100 years) can easily eclipse the total sum of all human progress so far.

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