• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    It would take a lot to make Mars more habitable than Earth. This isn’t about colonisation this is simply that it’s cool to build rockets.

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        2 months ago

        It’s the only planet we can terraform (As in repairing some of the damage we’ve done), we are nowhere near able to terraform Mars, not even theoretically and disregarding cost.
        Maybe in a century we can. But only maybe.

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            2 months ago

            Hypothetically, we could terraform Venus.

            Mars is the best option we have, which is why I mentioned that. Venus already has selfenforcing runaway global warming, and we can’t even land a probe there, because the environment is extremely hostile.
            Mars is by far the easier option.