Why do people talk about terraforming like it would ever become

Let them dream of a better future.
The truth is humanity will die in our semen encrusted VR pods.

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>>8790940
Ignorance is a helluva drug.

>>8790954
>Let them dream of a better future.

Why not inform them so they can dream of a realistic future that can actually be done?

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>>8790940
Whole planet doesn't need to change, it can simply be changed on a local cluster basis with proper shielding technology.

>>8790968
but thats not what you call terraforming
beside, why would you do such a thing in the gravity well of a planet?

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>2011+1000
>still living on a planet

>>8790940
>It is way easier to give ourselves immortal robot bodies than to change a whole fucking planet to fit the needs of our biological bodies

If we become immortal, and still reproduce, we'd fucking better be able to terraform some shit.

>>8790995
A spinning ring that is unstable in the orbital plane...

>>8791047
The solar system is also unstable.

>>8790940
Why would you want to live in a desert?

>>8790991
Terraforming can be done any number of ways in any split timescale.

You can create a small shield city which the first terraform is done on a planet and then continue the full terraforming on a century+ timescale, slowly increasing the city size and the number of cities.

It'd be much harder to terraform mars than it would be to terraform earth.

Need liquid water to support life as we know it

>>8791047
You are unstable. Mentally.

>>8791203
He's not so wrong, could try to tie rockets to an asteroid and put it into orbit and build a little self sustaining environment like on earth.

I don't know if that's a planet or an astriod or what though

Because humans ultimately want to be God. We create in our self-image. Thus, terraforming is the ultimate creation in our self-image: converting other celestial bodies into duplicates of our own home so we can bring Earth species to be fruitful and multiply.

>>8791194
Mars has cache of ice.

Asteroid catching and crashing towards mars can also be another source of water. There are plenty of waters on asteroids.

>>8791109
I dont think that living in gravity well makes much sense, unless we find a super cheap way to leave that well

>>8791044
>>8791229
Sure, we might terraform for fun, but we probably will never do it out of necessity

>>8791567
Environmental scientists are basically just terraformers

>>8791570
Garden landscapers are terraformers.

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>>8790940

Come on man, at least show the correct size difference between Earth and Mars

>>8790940
Von Neumann was correct, the only feasible means of colonization is sending small packets of self replicating micromachines to do all the work. Though he hadn't controlled for the part about humans actually getting there, which would entail brain damage to the point where we'd be useless and probably sterile upon arrival.

>>8793291
That's not even the earth in op's pic

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>>8790940
Study some biology.Looks like you have no idea about complexity level of mammalians.

Can Mars' gravity even hold a reliable, breathable atmosphere? There is all this talk about terraforming and shit, even in the academia but how is this overlooked, am I missing something?

>>8793502
This. I think people would see the world very differently if they grasped how insanely complex their own bodies are. There would probably be many less atheists around.

>>8793704
Considering Mars also doesn't have a magnetic field it's unsure it could even keep a breathable atmosphere before it was "blown away" by some sun storm

>>8790940
It's physically possible.

If we figure out how to stop and reverse global warming terraforming Venus might become a thing.

>>8791203
And probably he is fat enough to be physical unstable, also.

>>8795563
Not within humanity's timescale.