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Could Australia be terraformed? That seems like a pretty good goal for scientists to do before trying to live on another planet.

>> No.9826687

>>9826681
It's not a good idea to mess with any climate/terrain because it it is connected to the world at large.

>> No.9826691
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9826691

>>9826681
terraforming australia is more helpful to real estate moguls than scientists, seeing as it's just a harsh climate that still has oxygen, earth's atmosphere, predictable weather patterns, etc.

>> No.9826697

Once fusion power because viable then water desalination will not be a problem.

>> No.9826699

>>9826681
In its entirety? No. You could pipe rainwater from the northern regions down into the coastal cities (Perth, Melbourne, Sydney) where it's needed but I'm pretty sure they already do that. any atmospheric changes couldn't be localized due to the very nature of the atmosphere so that options gone. Even if you did global terraforming in the effort to bring more rainwater inland it'd still only affect the coastal regions and likely fuck up the ecosystem island wide.

>> No.9826718

>>9826681
you can't terraform what is already on earth.

>> No.9826835

>>9826697
Uh, then what?

Even with a fuckton of fusion power, and the massive desal infrastructure necessary, where the fuck do you put it? Pump it into a lake in the middle of the outback and let nature take its course?

>> No.9826861

>>9826681

I imagine that due to global warming, people will gradually begin to migrate away from the tropical and equatorial regions and closer to the arctic and antarctic regions like in Siberia, Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska, and Antarctica. Much of Africa, the Great Basin Range, Central America, Central Asia, Australia, and the Amazon will be largely abandoned due to deforestation and desertification. So we will more than likely see terraforming occurring throughout Siberia and Antarctica between the mid- to late-21st century.

See:

https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2035.htm#russia-food

https://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2090-2099.htm#westantarctica

>> No.9826963

>>9826699
What exactly is wrong with the northern regions? people always say nothing grows there, despite there being plenty of water.

>> No.9826969

>>9826687
ur such a bitch nigga

>> No.9827012

We would be really fucked if some sort of plague like virus or bacteria is trapped in the ice on Antarctica.