FrontSight wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 2:02 pm
CDFingers wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 1:47 pm
Neil deGrasse Tyson says that if we have the power to terraform another planet, we have the power to repair our own.
CDFingers
But is that true??
Clearly we have over 100 years of experience in warming up a planet; which is what Mars needs. Check.
How many years of experience does humanity have in cooling a planet? One, and it wasn't on purpose.
He also says that if frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their butts so much. But they don't, so they do.
His point is a fun one, though. designed to turn our human hunter gatherer origins on its head. Back in the day our band would occupy a region for a year or two, deplete the resources, then move fifty kliks down the valley. His point is that we've done run out of valleys, eh.
CDFingers