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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by travisjungroth on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:48PM (#34650875)
It's not about hospitable. It's about survivable. There are large enough meteor strikes where you'd be better off on a self-sustaining Mars colony than anywhere on Earth.
Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by danaris on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:47AM (#34654868)
Unless you're personally in the strike zone, that's not true.

And one should also bear in mind that Mars is at no less risk of meteor impacts than Earth.

Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by travisjungroth on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:36PM (#34658594)
It’s not about Mars being lower risk but independent risk. Someone could decide to keep copies of important documents in their vacation home not because it’s less likely to have a fire, but because it’s less likely for both houses to have a fire.

I used the wrong word when I said meteor. They’re too small. A comet or asteroid of 100km diameter would raise the temperature of the surface of the Earth by hundreds of degrees and then there’d be decades of darkness. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001632872...