I gotta imagine making the Sahara Desert habitable is a lot easier than making Mars habitable. The Sahara at least has breathable atmosphere, a 24 hour day, solar intensity that our plants are well adapted to using, and is relatively close to resupply from population centers on Earth.
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Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 months agoWe can’t keep astronauts aboard the ISS indefinitely, even with constant restocks from Earth, and we’re supposed to go even further out of our orbit to the moon or Mars and they’re going to be fully independent? Why not save the cost and try to make a human terrarium here on Earth?
booly@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Shareni@programming.dev 7 months ago
And Sahara was a jungle pretty recently.
Jorgelino@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
And getting there might be the easiest part of the whole terraforming thing. It only gets worse from there.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The closest thing to a self sustaining thing3is that Neom city they’re trying to build. It’s basically an arcology. And it’s already failing.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, I won’t knock people trying to leave the earth. I work in space stuff, and I would love nothing more than to see us realize multiplanetary habitation. but I definitely think we need to be good stewards of our planet. We don’t exactly have a plan b. And realistically, we may never have a plan b. Science is hard.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 months ago
I’m not saying don’t try to leave the planet, but also let’s look at feasibility here on Earth.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was agreeing with you, in case that wasn’t clear. Lol
Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 months ago
Glad we’re all on the same page. It’s terrifying looking at some of those other platforms and seeing what kind of thoughts are out there.