Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2021-09 to 2023-12.
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Terraforming is not a productive goal, and humanity should prioritize fixing Earth while maintaining curiosity-driven exploration.
“i'd like to fix earth and i'd like to explore for the sake of exploring not for the sake of changing to fit our standards or what we what we think we would need”
StarTalk · Sep 2021 · 2 episodes · 589K views on this topicTerraforming Mars by creating an artificial atmosphere is theoretically possible through a controlled greenhouse effect.
“I don't know if we need to go all the way back to Ur what we need to do is we need to basically kind of make a simulated greenhouse effect we need to get something in there to kind of get a controlled runaway greenhouse effect where we get enough of an atmosphere in there where we get enough heating”
StarTalk · Dec 2023 · 1 episode · 474K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.