[Noos]

If they could terraform another planet, they could probably just fix mars instead. There are a lot of weird contradictions in these kind of stories. Like they can move an entire planet's worth of people, but can't make a data repository that would survive them. Or that they would have a bad climate on mars, but somehow survive long enough to learn how to terraform a whole planet reliably as well as cross solar-system level distances.

[rabidrat]

> If they could terraform another planet, they could probably just fix mars instead.

So why do humans find it easier to conceive of terraforming Mars, than to just fix our planet instead?

[eindiran]

It's the same reason that software engineers love greenfielding projects. Architecting clean, fresh systems is romantic! You won't make any of the mistakes that you've now learned from! All this needless complexity can be done away with once and for all.

[krapp]

Terraforming Mars is more adventurous and romantic.