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RE: Is it time now for us to consider seeding a planet? - 4/24/2007 11:21:21 PM

Termyn8or

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Why would we spread such a disease ? you think we are ready ? shit Man, I gotta tell you we are not even close.

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RE: Is it time now for us to consider seeding a planet? - 4/25/2007 12:00:21 AM

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go to another planet and kill the life there too? i think we need to stay put.

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RE: Is it time now for us to consider seeding a planet? - 4/25/2007 5:48:36 PM

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We could not realistically get a ship there (120 gabillion miles or whatever) to do the seeding. Even if it could course correct, self maintain, ect and actually get there it would take way to long to be usefull. The only way people would ever get there is if we had warp/faster than light travell, so the people would beat the seeding ship by tens of thousands of years. Sinergy, a ship does not have to start deacelleration halfway, it can use gravity wells and such to slow down after it gets to (or reasonably near) the destination.

The intersting thig would be to try to teraform mars, though I suspect since it has no Magnetic field it will prove impossible. It used to have a molten core and magnetic field, but it solidified around the time it lost its oceans. Some scientists are suspecting something similar is in store for the earth

My error...my original post was in reference to "seeding"...as in seeds.

Plants.

Oxygen.

Atmosphere...stuff that takes a few million years. Before we get there.

My original question was more along the lines of "is it time to consider seeding planets now....lots of them, considering we have what appears to be a few million, perhaps a few hundred million years left in our sun"?

Perhaps it's now time to consider finding (as the original post suggests we may have found) planets that are capable of growing plants, life, trees, oxygen....and "seeding" them.

We won't be there until we can actually get there in a life sustaining time frame....but plants, oxygen, atmosphere, all that stuff will take millions of years. If it takes a million years for us to get the stuff of life there...and spread it amongst the winds (if there are any), it may be just exactly enough time for the planet to prepare itself for us.

(Maybe that's how we got here in the first place?)

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RE: Is it time now for us to consider seeding a planet? - 4/25/2007 6:11:36 PM

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Thanks for returning the thread to your original point, Griswold.

I think it is evident that not many people care to think long range, or have any goals beyond those in their immediate material world.

Having grown up with the invigorating optimism of what used to be called the "space race", I had presumed earlier in life that my entire generation had gotten Thomas Malthus.

Add to basic Malthusian logic the ever more obvious need to shift some eggs to a different basket asap, and you get what is to me a compelling argument to seed wherever and whatever might grow.

Cast your bread upon the waters...

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