[ SECRET POST #3060 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3060 ⌋

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Comments

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

OK, posting on anon, I was being a bit more of a dick than I needed to be.

Still, sorry, but I'm with Daniel Quinn's "B" on this one. Martian colonization is a non-solution for the foreseeable future. We have to live within our one-planet means.

Where are we going to get the water to terraform Mars, anyway? I don't think people understand how absurdly much energy it takes to move a partial hydrosphere and additional atmosphere onto a planet.

And it still lacks an Earth-level magnetic field.

So here's my problem: We keep leaving stuff in orbit, that eventually disintegrates and becomes a sort of layer of collision hazards to exiting craft. Even a paint chip moving at orbital speeds is a menace to a rocket moving at escape velocity. We may find that spaceflight is functionally closed to us by our own junk before we reach technologies that make terraforming anything more than a ludicrous pipe dream.

So, we need to be more careful and/or less ambitious.

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

The whole "colonizing other planets" goal has always rubbed me the wrong way.

"We're gonna get it right this time folks! We're not gonna repeat the same mistakes in here that we did back in Earth!"

A few hundred years later:

"Okay, Earth 2 is ruined, let's look for the next planet! We'll get it right this time, for reals."