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Old 12-26-2024, 08:45 PM   #1706 (permalink)
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I didn't get through this whole thing, but it is in topic:

spectrum.ieee.org: STARTUPS BEGIN GEOENGINEERING THE SEA


So one company injects CO₂ into the oceans and another sucks it back out -- for money. ...to crash the market for industrial CO₂. [shrug]
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'Terraforming' Mars is just trading one gravity well for another.

More interesting to me is Phobos.

en.wikipedia.org: Shklovsky's "Hollow Phobos" hypothesis


Much more achievable than colonizing the planet or O'Neill Cylinders.
Yeah, I'm not big on Mars in particular. We don't get much benefit merely occupying other objects. Send the AI robots to colonize these places and mine/terraform.

I'm more interested in locating and traveling to other suitable solar systems.
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