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		weregiraffe 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Common yeast can survive Martian conditions The best time to start terraforming a planet is never. The idea is as absurd as a Dyson sphere/swarm. People should really grow beyond sci-fi ideas that were last fresh in the 1930's.

ACCount37 4 months ago | [–]

No. Sci-fi ideas from the 1930s beat the myopic doomerism of 2020s, and it's not even a contest.

randallsquared 4 months ago | [–]

What's better, and on what metric(s)?

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