Re:The Driest Place on Earth
by AnonC on Saturday March 23, 2024 @09:27PM
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If the human species somehow manages to continue, it will have to find a new home outside this planet. It’s just a matter of time before this planet “dies out” in terms of the ability to support current life forms.
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Re:The Driest Place on Earth
by antisthenes on Saturday March 23, 2024 @09:57PM
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If you have access to the kind of energy that enables interstellar travel, you also by definition have enough energy to terraform your own planet and keep recycling resources indefinitely.
If you have infinite energy, your planet never "dies out", because you can terraform it at will.
No amount of terraforming will save the Earth when the sun dies and takes out half the solar system with it. There are other dangers too that make it irresponsible to leave all of humanity on one planet. Our survival as a species depends on us being able to survive on multiple worlds in multiple solar systems, or at the very least being able to sustain ourselves on interstellar ships.
It's unlikely that humans exist then. Speciation or calamity will intervene.