The fact that people think this kind of thing is even *on the table* as an option for "how to deal with climate change" is a nontrivial factor in dooming us allhttps://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/1384566609331822594 …
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I need you all to understand that "terraforming Mars" is *substantially harder* than other solutions to our problems like, say, "genetically engineer all future humans to be half the size so we eat less"
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Replying to @charles_gaba
Yeah I have a lot of affection for that movie even though, of course, scientifically a human being that size would die of hypothermia very quickly (among other things)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @charles_gaba
I *have* actually seen quasi-serious discussions of how, when you get right down to it, there don't seem to be any actual health reasons human beings need to be much bigger than five feet tall -- we've got whole populations of people smaller than that doing just fine
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Still? In this economy?
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