As a reminder, his first prediction was for 2024....
Like in Niven's early Known Space stories, where the Belt was colonized and so was Luna because it was convenient to the Earth, but Mars was just a hole. Too much atmosphere to ignore but not enough to actually be useful.
If your body goes through the center of rotation you get opposite gravity on your head and feet.
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Horseshoe theory where libertarianism meets communism.
Basically, what this means is that in order to reach other planets, we'd have to develop technology that makes colonizing and terraforming those planets unnecessary.
The titular spaceship from Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary" uses that concept to generate gravity. Are you referring to that story?
This is mostly true. If we have the tech to terraform Mars, we can fix any kind of environmental disaster on Earth. Although, if we actually were to develop the level of technology needed to make Venus, or Mars or beyond habitable in a cost effective way, it might be fun to do it just for the heck of it. I could see it happening one day, but not anytime soon.
I was also thinking of the below video in my post. I really think that Mars is mostly a waste of time. I really think most of the exploration we do of Mars will just keep showing it's a boring rock.
This would have been a while back, probably in the 90s in a popular science type magazine.
As I understand it, Venus currently has no oxygen in the atmosphere, has surface temperatures hot enough to melt metal and has a surface pressure equivalent to that in the deep ocean on Earth.
