We are on different wavelengths here, you and I. I'm talking about where Dr. Frankenstein will take us if we elect him president of the world, instead of grabbing our torches and storming the castle.
And I'm talking about the most extreme use of engineering to maximize growth of human economy. You say that the climate must be preserved somehow. I say that sufficiently advanced engineering will permit man to ignore whatever the climate decides to do -ice ages, runaway greenhousing, whatever- , by insulating man from the climate. If the climate begins to affect the men within the insulation, then you make the insulation thicker (and move out of the way of the glaciers).
However bad things get on earth, they probably will be no less habitable than space. And colonies in space are generally not considered impossible.
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You are very attached to the earth. You must be a darned liberal.
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- Ok...you anti-human environmentalist psychos...
- What prevents us from turning the entire surface of the earth into a mile-high metroplex?
- Nothing to fear.
- Heat Dissipation, for one...
- That it isn't sensible, economic, or necessary. (n/t)
- re: What prevents us from turning the entire surface of the earth into a mile-high metroplex?
- Humans, the stupidest species on Earth!
- PS
- Don't you know that you can count me in.
- Ironically...
- What prevents us from turning the entire surface of the earth into a mile-high metroplex?