Do I think that we're ready to go to another planet and start making major changes? No, not really. I think that we're not doing a good enough job on this rock to be allowed to play with another, but I don't think that anyone is going to stop us. Let's just hope that we do it well, without screwing up too much. I don't see anytime soon that we'll be able to travel to other stars, so the 3rd and 4th rocks around the sun I figure is all we have to play with. Maybe one day we're not going to be the only blue jewel around Sol.
Listening to: Moxy Fruvous - Breakfast at Tiffany's
I think it's going to take a very long time to change mars into something hospitible. We've been pumping CO2 into the atmosphere on earth for about 100 years, and have only managed to change the temperature by about 1 degree, and we're not even sure if it's because of the CO2. We'd have to think of an economical way to get stuff up there. Not only that, but I don't think many people would like to be the first to live up there. It would be very lonely, and there would be no internet. It wouldn't work very well with 18 minute round trip times. I seriously couldn't see people going there to live, within the next 2000 years. There's a lot of work to be done.
ReplyDeleteah, but progress happens a lot faster than most people think. Just think of how far we have come in the last 100 years. As for being lonely, those people are usually called "pioneers". ;-)
ReplyDelete18 minute ping times? I think that's what I have at my house...
I think that it would be easier to change mars than here. Remember, we are trying *not* to change earth. But one of the technologies that I think would be key to putting people on mars for a long time would be a space elevator, which I have written about before.
http://www.beernut.ca/jim/archives/000656.html
Another good article about moving people around in space.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,603798,00.html