Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (2013)

Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by ke88y on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @01:17PM (#35717067)

> It will always be many orders of magnitude easier to terraform Earth, even after we screwed it up, than trying to terraform Mars.

It's many orders of magnitude easier to afford a $100,000,000 home if you make $10,000 per year than if you only make $1 per year.

But you're never going to afford that home either way.

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by replygirl on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @01:31PM (#35717263)

We reversed the Chicago River 120 years ago, protected the Netherlands from flooding for centuries, blasted out the bed of the East River to make New York one of the most successful ports in history, laid at least one canal through every major ithsmus, and built dozens of reservoirs and irrigation systems into every hydrological ecosystem that touches a major population center. That's just water projects.

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by gus_massa on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @02:19PM (#35717924)

> We reversed the Chicago River 120 years ago

I had never heard that. More info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by ke88y on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @02:31PM (#35718062)

None of these are even remotely close to terraforming.

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by ask_b123 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:16PM (#35718614)

What is an isthmus? Do the Pyrenees count as one? Tehuantepec?

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by Ma8ee on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:20AM (#35724868)

Certainly. What I was trying to say was that the notion of terraforming Mars as an escape when we screwed up here is absurd.

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