we wont "need" planetary colonization until 400,000 years from now.
and civilization as we know it is only 4,000 years old.
and we're going to exhaust all raw materials in 400 years.
if climate change doesnt cause a catastrophe in 40 years.
meanwhile, why not "colonize" the Sahara or the antarctic. it has atmosphere, survivable temperature, no UV rays, water source. colonizing mars 395,000 years too early is a wasteful error.
dude, there will barely be any difference in 500k years, in 1 BILLION years the luminosity will be about 10% higher.
At that point it will probably be uninhabitable for most organisms on earth (especially humans, but there is no way "we" are alive then and if by some extreme miracle humans are, I would not consider them human anymore by a long shot)
ok, so I was giving us leeway of factor of 1000. instead of 500,000,000yr, I was saying 500,000yr.
I didnt want to tell the humans the real deadline, because they always leave everything till the last minute.
It will be 499,999,995 AD and, finally, United Earth Congress will pass a budget for a Space Exploration Fact-Finding Study Blue-Ribbon Committee, but it will be too late.
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u/telerabbit9000 1d ago
we wont "need" planetary colonization until 400,000 years from now.
and civilization as we know it is only 4,000 years old.
and we're going to exhaust all raw materials in 400 years.
if climate change doesnt cause a catastrophe in 40 years.
meanwhile, why not "colonize" the Sahara or the antarctic. it has atmosphere, survivable temperature, no UV rays, water source. colonizing mars 395,000 years too early is a wasteful error.