10-02-2013, 04:28 AM
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We need to immediately start dropping ice asteroids on Mars. Immense environmental vandalism which may give us a viable bolt-hole if Earth locks into an overheat spiral …
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That sounds like a plot line for a good short story. We would be ‘protecting’ future generations. |
Niven, Robinson and many others have written on this theme.
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I’ll wager that Larry Niven took a characteristically ‘hardnosed’ approach in his treatment of the subject.
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… The timeframe for our planet becoming a second Venus is frightening, possibly under 10,000 years.
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… but possibly a little longer.
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Maybe 
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Well, you know what they say about the future … it ain’t what it used to be!
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