tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post3631732880175751383..comments2023-12-17T16:13:06.670-05:00Comments on In a Godward direction: Thought for 09.28.09Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-11390991424728697452009-09-29T15:55:08.592-05:002009-09-29T15:55:08.592-05:00Thanks, Dahveed and Tim. Yes, with all due respect...Thanks, Dahveed and Tim. Yes, with all due respect to C.S. Lewis, Mars is much more likely to be terraformable. Venus is a goner, and Terra may follow if we reach the tipping point with greenhouse gasses. Maybe by then we'll have terraformed Mars and can just "move next door." We'd better do a good job of it, though, because the next stop is an unlikely habitation -- unless we do something on one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.<br /><br />Still, it's sobering to know that just as each of us is mortal, so is humanity as a whole, and we will eventually run out of space, time, and energy. As, indeed, C.S. Lewis pointed out in "Out of the Silent Planet."Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-53337256924080268382009-09-29T13:56:38.101-05:002009-09-29T13:56:38.101-05:00Tobias, I'm here via Sherry of "A Feather...Tobias, I'm here via Sherry of "A Feather Adrift" and I owe her great thanks for the recommendation.<br /><br /> I'm often struck with the same trepidation you mention here--the idea that our bungling of the land and the life we were given has brought us near the end of the road. I pray we catch ourselves before we're catapulted into the oblivion we seem to crave.<br /><br />Don't know much about astronomy, but I believe Mars is more temperate and livable than Venus for our species, which sadly seem apropos. The planet named for love will suffocate us, while we put hope in the war planet as our next frontier.<br /><br />Thanks for the provocative thought!Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01271248501086241494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-67632485135078942472009-09-29T10:27:10.152-05:002009-09-29T10:27:10.152-05:00Well, Venusforming would also be very smoggy.
My ...Well, Venusforming would also be very smoggy.<br /><br />My God, all we really know how to do is to royally screw things up.Brother Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333089314994730330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-55182133605923087662009-09-29T09:11:00.000-05:002009-09-29T09:11:00.000-05:00Indeed so. I was thinking desert, but hot and stic...Indeed so. I was thinking desert, but hot and sticky seems more likely.Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-17977593315550226992009-09-28T21:16:37.100-05:002009-09-28T21:16:37.100-05:00Marsiforming? It might end up more like Venusform...Marsiforming? It might end up more like Venusforming.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17550041790269387561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-39973708961885131492009-09-28T14:11:20.398-05:002009-09-28T14:11:20.398-05:00Seems to me the problem is that while we might try...Seems to me the problem is that while we might try terraforming Mars we are in the meantime marsiforming Earth! Out of the Silent Planet indeed....Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-2192527065632231732009-09-28T13:44:31.269-05:002009-09-28T13:44:31.269-05:00Let's just hope we're not forced to make a...Let's just hope we're not forced to make an exodus through the wilderness of the "vast expanse of interstellar space."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17550041790269387561noreply@blogger.com