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...there is good historical evidence of economies being influenced- for better or worse- by environmental factors I suppose you mean like crops failing and causing famine. Of course if the environment seemed unsaveable, the powers that be will have an incentive to build Moon bases and the like and ...

We'll probably start with bases on the moon within a century... Maybe. If we haven't been knocked back a few hundred years technologically, or had our economies totally ruined by environmental change. Economies and the environment are at the mercy of the people who control money and power. Money of...

I have a question. Are Dawn's photos black'n'white ? I have been trying to use photoshop to increase the saturation in some pictures and I haven't found even subtle hints of colour. Even the moon has more colour in it.

I reckon we can look after this planet, particularly as technology increases our ability to prevent any asteroid collisions. I believe we will be actively terraforming Mars before global warming gets us, learning how to keep our own planet's temperature artificially stable. We are actually supposed ...

I believe (just as an interested layperson who spends time drawing sci-fi comic books in my spare time) that it takes absolutely perfect conditions for the very first life to evolve. The fact that there are hardy lifeforms on Earth doesn't mean that there are any on Mars, but you could introduce the...

If the density were the same as Earth, the gravity should be 2.4 3 which is like 14x Earth's gravity. If scales on Earth tell you you are 100kg, on this planet they would read 1400kg. Such a g force would knock you out and you would be jelly on the ground with bones cracking and blood coming out of ...