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Scientists find desert moss ‘that can survive on Mars’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We just build a planet-sized sunshade to freeze the atmosphere

Cost, 100 to 1000 trillion. We can barely fund NASA

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Every argument I ever hear against thinking about things in the cool space future boils down to "we couldn't do it this financial quarter so it'll never be possible at all".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I like to think about the spacefaring AI (or cyborgs, if we're lucky) that will inevitably do this stuff in our stead, assuming we don't strangle them in the cradle.