[Rockhounds] Terraforming Mars might be impossible? for now

[Mike Flannigan]

What?  A reasoned response grounded in reality?  That
has fallen out of favor for some reason.

All cars will be driving themselves within 5 years - yeah right.
That will only work when ALL vehicles are driving themselves,
and people are not ready to give that up yet.

Artificial intelligence - everybody is doing it.  Never mind
that there is no AI.  We will change the definition until
every hand-held phone can do that.

We can't even get #1 done at the moment - go to Mars,
explore it with people, and get back.  They are planning on
stranding the Martian explorers on the surface to die.


It's OK to dream big, but don't forget that it's just a
dream at the moment.  Don't extrapolate it to being a
done deal in 10 years.

I want to hear more about how we harness the sun's energy
to accurately move massive bodies 2.7 AU out from the sun's
surface.  Because one thing is for sure - we are not carrying
that amount of energy out there.


Mike



On 3/13/20 2:00 PM, rockhounds-request at rockhounds.drizzle.com wrote:
> Did anyone thing this was a near future possibility? It's always seemed to
> me to off in the future after we have practical interplanetary travel, and
> I don't mean getting blasted into orbit by sitting on top of thousands of
> tons of explosives to do it.
>
> BK