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Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau... by lm28469 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:31PM (#38028880)
> It's the plan to protect humanity (as in the genus) from extinction level events such as asteroids, mega-volcano eruptions or global wars.

That's a nice thought but it's 100% sci-fi, we can't act as if A will cause B because neither A nor B are certain. What if this race for survival is exactly the thing that will cause our end ?

> the technologies developed to transform Mars would be the same technologies that would help fix Earth.

Except it's literally the opposite... we need a lot of co2 on mars to make it habitable

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/mars-terraforming-not-poss...

Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau... by throwawaylmao on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:47AM (#38036487)
> That's a nice thought but it's 100% sci-fi, we can't act as if A will cause B because neither A nor B are certain.

Sorry but I don't follow. We need to act because it's a real possibility, even though it's uncertain.

> What if this race for survival is exactly the thing that will cause our end ?

... "we can't act as if A will cause B because neither A nor B are certain."

Why would it cause our end?

> Except it's literally the opposite... we need a lot of co2 on mars to make it habitable

Sure, but that's not the only thing you need to do there. You also need to make fuel - out of CO2 that's already there.