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What's a gigaproject you dare not dream of, but perhaps an ecologically wealthy and healthy planet would start commissioning feasibility studies for? (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like space and terraforming have gotten a bad wrap since their primary purpose seems to be to provide a false solution to climate change.

But, if we did manage to "win" at existing on Earth, we could still get completely wrecked by asteroids, super-volcanos, etc. So some sort of non-terrestrial proliferation of DNA-based life seems like a solid investment. So:

Short-term: space elevator
Long-term: warp drive or some way to bypass speed of light limitations

Or at the very least, give up our anthropocentric biases and rig up a mass Tardigrade or Fungal Spore Yeeter to do our part for Panspermia

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Eon-term: gently nudging the sun's orbit through the galactic disc so that in the unthinkably distant future we can make our liquid water zone do a kissy with a red dwarf's liquid water zone, handing off the earth to something with a real lifespan.

edit: we probably want to take Jupiter with us if it hasn't already got a gas giant to herd away the asteroids.