Wait am I crazy? I don't see that as a rule

It's against the rules, unfortunately! I have a video with sound in my profile

Why do you not want any sound with your gifs? I'm sad it doesn't have sound :(

I hope humanity can reach this milestone in the future, sounds very exciting and crazy to discover new lands, would be incredibly exciting!

I still cant believe this game is made by two people.

I really like this game. It has Subnautica esq storytelling to it while you are busy terraforming the planet. Although its not quite there yet, this game has a lot of potential. Already sunk a good few hours into it.

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Great books!!

Magnetic field on planetary scale? I mean, we do, but in theory

We know of ways to build that magnetic field, but it is pretty clear that humanity is not able to pull together and complete mega projects like that right now.

The theoretical approaches I’ve seen vary quite significantly in answer to these. The one that seems most plausible to me personally (caveat: not a scientist) is basically just a satellite in near-geostationary orbit with a big electromagnet inside - the planet doesn’t need to generate its own field if we generate one to act as a shield. Of course this approach has its own shortcomings (what happens if it breaks down, for example?).

As for happening in your lifetime… that’s doubtful I’m afraid. While rebuilding an atmosphere is relatively simple it’s not relatively quick and would most likely take a couple hundred years. And that’s just the first step in terraforming - “an atmosphere” has to be turned into “ideal atmosphere”, and then the various forms of life necessary to maintain balance need to be introduced and given time to become stable.

Of course - this is all based on current technology. When it becomes a serious consideration who knows what our technological capabilities will be and how that could speed this process up?

daddy abaddon would be displeased

Pshhh. We can’t even terraform Earth.

Being life to Mars and make Earth a planetary preserve. Can’t ruin anything on Mars. It’s already dead.

Better to bring life to a dead world than kill a living one.

How long did it take for Global Warming to take off? Humans excel at this shit.

glad you like them :D

But over hundreds of years. Technology would allow it.

thank you :)

i'll make another one nex time :D

I’m readying Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mara Trilogy and it has rekindled my interest in the colonization of Mars and brings to light not only the physical challenges of terraforming a planet but also the political challenges of humans fighting over new land, resources and ideals on another planet.

Realistically any colonization of Mars would be carried out through “paraterraforming” aka dome cities or underground cities. And that is how colonization also starts in Robinson’s novels.

People who think it can never happen or is not possible or ignoring all the trends of human history where humans constantly expand and adapt their surrounding to themselves.

Cheeting in his missus, tut

Can you try making them blink in unison? I wanna see if it’s creepier

That film showed that it's very difficult though.

It's not easy, it's hard Core.

Flay them, that their screams echo to the Realm of the Blood God!

For Khorne!

Teraforming Mars is an impossible idea unless we know how to create a magnetic field around it, which we never will. But i enjoy science fiction myself anyways.