RE: Would you live on terraformed Venus?
August 4, 2019 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2019 at 12:14 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 4, 2019 at 11:52 am)Sal Wrote: We'll have 1 billion people living on Mars by the time the first permanent settlement is on the surface of Venus.
It would be interesting to calculate what the population carrying capacity of fully terraformed mars might be. I suspect it is a lot less than a billion people. Even the most optimistic and grandiose terraforming scenario, if examined closely, would leave the surface of terraformed planet in a state that would not even approach what would be considered marginal on earth. The best scenario would see most of mars becoming similar to the atacama desert, with small parts more like arctic tundra, while the best part of Venus would be somewhat like Sahara by day and the ice free parts of Antarctic by night.
I don’t see we can feasibly establish a second population center in the solar system that would rival the population of the earth even in the far future.
