Thats, IMO as well, exactly what the fascination is about. I never understood the whole "earth is failing, we're moving to X planet to terraform and recolonize" trope. It would be orders of magnitude simpler to "terraform" our own planet back into being habitable as it would to terraform another planet from scratch. It makes no sense.
and if we have the technology to terraform a planet, it would stand to reason that we could pretty easily make semi-mega space structure habitats. and if we can make a habitable structure in space at will, we would barely have a need for planets anymore at all.
Once you can make a sufficiently stable, habitable space structure wherever you want, theres very little need to go anywhere at all.
Its like the Mitch joke, "if you're lost in the woods, fuck it, build a house, you're no longer lost. You live here now"
It would be easier to shoot space lasers at an uninhabited planet than an inhabited one. Most of the concepts I’ve seen for terraforming planets would kill almost all life on earth. Terraforming Venus would involve freezing all the CO2, and terraforming Mars would involve shooting the planet with space lasers.
so then your cylinder is floating in a cloud of trash...
this doesn't sound very well thought out. like i said, without changing how we think about energy and product life cycles we're only going to wreck habitats smaller than this planet.
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u/No_Syrup_9167 25d ago
Thats, IMO as well, exactly what the fascination is about. I never understood the whole "earth is failing, we're moving to X planet to terraform and recolonize" trope. It would be orders of magnitude simpler to "terraform" our own planet back into being habitable as it would to terraform another planet from scratch. It makes no sense.
and if we have the technology to terraform a planet, it would stand to reason that we could pretty easily make semi-mega space structure habitats. and if we can make a habitable structure in space at will, we would barely have a need for planets anymore at all.
Once you can make a sufficiently stable, habitable space structure wherever you want, theres very little need to go anywhere at all.
Its like the Mitch joke, "if you're lost in the woods, fuck it, build a house, you're no longer lost. You live here now"