Eli5: What are the main things holding humanity back when it comes to being able to Terraform a planet or other large celestial objects in space?
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Planets are mind bogglingly big, we are tiny, and the closest one we might begin to work on is 200 miles straight up in the air, with 3 months travel time in the most inhospitable environment known to mankind short of standing in lava, followed up by a 100 mile fall straight down into an almost as inhospitable environment, but with more dust. And that’s just to get there.
Eli5: What are the main things holding humanity back when it comes to being able to Terraform a planet or other large celestial objects in space?
In: 14
Planets are mind bogglingly big, we are tiny, and the closest one we might begin to work on is 200 miles straight up in the air, with 3 months travel time in the most inhospitable environment known to mankind short of standing in lava, followed up by a 100 mile fall straight down into an almost as inhospitable environment, but with more dust. And that’s just to get there.
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