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>>11764437
>>11764470
Going to Mars is how we are going to fix earth. Most saliently, how we handle climate change and other human environmental problems.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Mars will never be green, “terraforming” that place is a fucking meme. Mars is going to be a foundry planet that we export all of our nasty industrial processes to. There’s no EPA, there’s no environment to fuck up. We can dump waste wherever we want, run everything off nuclear power, and smash asteroids into the surface for processing of their precious metals. Meanwhile, back on earth, we “terraform” our existing habitat into an agrarian garden of eden. The whole of the earth will be almost exclusively for habitation and food production, which is a much more realistic outcome than trying to put a fucking magnetosphere around a dead planet.