Monday, February 22, 2021

Mars as a "insurance policy"

I am somewhat sympathetic to this:
 


As I have said before, I think it is better to establish the Moon as a nearby lifeboat - store a lot of information, including genetic, up there in the event that a large chunk of the Earth is ruined.

1 comment:

GMB said...

Since moons grow to planets grow to gas giants grow to stars grow to bigger stars, this means that any one planet is only habitable to intelligent life for a limited time. This mandates terraforming for an intelligent species, since its the only method of survival. But right now we should be terraforming Australia. Terraforming the Sahara. Terraforming earth to make it more habitable. We can be on easy street if most of us are living in a spacious 5 storey house close to a container enabled wharf, next to a canal.