• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    15 hours ago

    If we had the technology to terraform another planet, it would be far easier to just fix the climate on this planet. People like Elon Musk who are peddling this idea of terraforming Mars for habitation are charlatans.

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      11 hours ago

      To be fair, we know how to raise the temperature on a planet, but have never successfully lowered it

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      13 hours ago

      While I agree Earth first. But just like most humans you are underestimating our level of risk. There is a very legitimate reason to have a goal of not putting all our eggs in one planet. That’s just a much more long term goal than our climate issues, but we shouldn’t stop trying to progress our technology for that end.

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        12 hours ago

        True, but colonizing other planets is more distant a goal than making our own stable.

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        9 hours ago

        We will not accomplish any of this. Because we don’t even care for the biosphere of the planet we already have in the best state of “terrafoming” ever.

        Humankind will speedily regress to much lower levels of organisation and technology soon. It’s inevitable.