[manquer]

Warmer tropical climates can support more population generally. More crops are possible, lesser infra required etc.

Suitable is a question of idealogy and choices , one is cultural and other is ecological.

Whether you are comfortable living in a 700sq foot apartment or you need a sprawling 10 acre property is really about culture, europe is okay with smaller cars, more public transport , dense cities , US is not .

Sustainable density really then, Looking at the crazy limits in the bay area is funny to me, but perhaps it is right for people here they don't want higher density housing.

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Earth itself quite capable of supporting multiple ten of billions but it would come at the expense of reduced bio diviserty

Most people would think that is bad, but there is case that it isn't . Earth has gone through multiple extinction events before us, however this is chance for life to become multi planetary for the first time, for life itself it is probably worth the risk.

Theoretically ofcourse we all cooperate and work in sync, we could achieve that without destroying the planet. However we aren't wired that way , evolution is not efficient.

[imtringued]

>Earth has gone through multiple extinction events before us, however this is chance for life to become multi planetary for the first time, for life itself it is probably worth the risk.

If you can live on Mars you can live on Earth, the problem is that nobody wants to live on Mars or a Mars like Earth.

You are also underestimating the time it takes to colonize Mars. There aren't any plans right now, all we get is more rovers. Nobody is sending space manufacturing equipment to Mars nor is anyone sending an autonomous outpost ahead of time ready for people to move into it. As it is right now, if we were to send people to Mars we would send them there to die there.

If you are going to talk about Elon Musk, I'm going to remind you that he planned a Mars mission for 2018, he can't be trusted with anything.

[manquer]

Realistically there is going to lot of pain.

Just Going to mars is not really multi planetary. The difference of few years when the first attempt takes place is not going to change much.

I am talking about a self sustaining significant colony. That is going be realistic probably only after 2150-2200.

Climate change and other problems will have huge impact but the humanity isn't going die from it.

You are right nobody would want to go mars today to live and work. To be the first sure, further science, unique experience sure, but regular people will have no interest in living there permanently.

However in 2150 earth is going to be rough enough that mars or space won't look too bad. The economics will also have low enough by then.

My point is that's real goal for life. we can be all eco friendly today, all it will go anyway with one extinction type of event , super volcano/asteroid/earth quake/.. take your pick

We need to keep that in mind, sustainability is important but not if we don't become multi planetary.

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To me it like we are fixing bugs and improving code and efficiency instead of worrying about HA. For uptime that's most important damn thing.

Users(humans) care about the bugs and issues (sustainability) , system (life) should be worried about uptime /reliability. That is lot easier with HA.

As an engineer I would prioritize developing HA/fail over and DR over fixing the bugs if I had to choose, I would only fix bugs which make the application completly unusable and user leave (die?) Until I have a solid uptime solution