The Ethics of Terraforming

The colonization could happen given a sufficient reason to
expend the money required.

Can't imagine what that reason would be.


Terraforming might require some of that "magical" technology,
at least in the Arthur Clarke meaning.

Mike Walsh


Which is how I've been using it all along.

Michael Walsh wrote in message ...
Rand Simberg wrote:

On 7 Dec 2003 20:11:08 -0800, in a place far, far away,
(Johnny1A) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

(John Ordover) wrote in message om...

We will never, ever colonize or terraform Mars, save if the cost drops
to near to nothing due to some kind of magical technology.


That prediction, like most of yours, suffers from the fact that it's
meaningless beyond about 20 years ahead, like ALL economic
predictions.

You'd actually make a good general case for your views if you didn't
keep declaring them as open-ended certainties.

His worship of "magical technology" would be kind of touching, if it
weren't so stupid and uneducated.

Well, colonization is a lot different than terraforming.

The colonization could happen given a sufficient reason to
expend the money required.

Terraforming might require some of that "magical" technology,
at least in the Arthur Clarke meaning.

Mike Walsh

'Magical technology' is highly likely in the long term. The trouble
is that there's no way to predict _what_ the magic will be. The
Internet and the internal combustion engine are examples of magical
technology, if you live in 1800.

Shermanlee