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To: ckilmer

No. It just takes political will and there is no indication, in the US at least, of existing - just the opposite. It will also take in conjunction with the political will a revamped educational system that actually educates. All other manned colonizing expeditions by other countries are basically military in intent, not civilian.

No one is going to go through all the trouble that overly-optimistic vid suggests. The Earth is already terraformed so using that word makes no sense. Increasing the amount of usable fresh water is a separate problem from actually sending people to another planet and having them survive long enough to do anything useful. Terraforming is so far down the list as to be laughable at this point in time - in fact it might be easier to alter human physiology to suit the planet rather than go to the time, expense, trouble to terraform.

Terraforming Venus is just a ridiculous proposition no matter how nice the PowerPoint presentation seems.


59 posted on 03/18/2016 8:05:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

The technology to terraform mars is not available now. That won’t be possible until energy & water costs are 1/10th—or less— of current cheapest energy and (desalinized)water costs. That’s still maybe 50 years off. Nor is it cost effective to grow fruits and vegetables cost effectively in the desert except in green houses and vertical farms...-— today. However, 10 years from now technological changes will drop the cost of electricity by 1/2—which will then make desert farming cost effective.


60 posted on 03/18/2016 9:35:04 AM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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