Pages
Categories
- aerospace
- AI
- animal rights
- anthropics
- art/music
- articles
- BCI
- bioethics
- biology
- brain
- chemistry
- comics
- cryonics
- cybernetics
- environmentalism
- ethics
- events
- friendly ai
- futurism
- humor
- images
- intelligence
- interviews
- IQ
- kurzweil
- life extension
- lifeboat
- manufacturing
- math
- me
- meta
- nanotechnology
- nuclear
- philanthropy
- philosophy
- physics
- policy
- politics
- random
- rationality
- religion
- risks
- robotics
- science
- SIAI
- singularity
- space
- superintelligence
- technology
- transhumanism
- treaties
- uploading
- videos
- warfare
- web 2.0
Blogroll
- AF on Twitter
- Anders Sandberg
- Books
- Brian Wang
- Eric Drexler
- EurekAlert
- Luke Muehlhauser
- Nanofactories
- Natasha Vita-More
- Nick Bostrom
- Rob Freitas
- Singularity Institute
- Value is Fragile
Archive
- April 2012
- March 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
January 23rd, 2009 - 09:45
It would need more of a shimmer around the edges. The only way Mars can support an atmosphere which supports human life is if we induced an artificial EM field around it.
January 23rd, 2009 - 13:02
Was just considering posting this.
January 23rd, 2009 - 13:04
and this also.
January 23rd, 2009 - 15:45
A great link here too
January 24th, 2009 - 16:08
Ian, it seems like it might be cheaper to genetically engineer humans to deal with cosmic rays better, if that is possible. Do you know of any books or web pages that describe your induced EM field idea? I’ve heard of it before, but it sounds so expensive and difficult to pull off.
January 24th, 2009 - 17:30
This is all a bit old school, isn’t it? Terraformed planets?
We all know that it’d be easier to build a Dyson Sphere and create simulated planets.
Perhaps you think that there is a sentimental reason to leave Mars and Venus and terraform them in real space?
January 24th, 2009 - 17:32
Which reminds me of a problem with h+: any image or story of the future that is conceptually simple for us to understand simply doesn’t do the possibilities justice…
It’s hard to post a picture of what people would get up to in the many simulated realities that would exist on a Dyson sphere.
January 24th, 2009 - 18:02
Roko, it’s just something interesting. Perhaps we’ll choose to make “terraformed” planets in virtual worlds. As you say, portraying what we really expect is pretty much impossible, so “old school” is all there is. It’s not very interesting to be like, “here’s the future!” and have a picture of a gigantic question mark.
I personally think that Dyson spheres are silly, myself. There is more than enough matter on Earth to simulate a quadrillion beings for a quadrillion years.
January 26th, 2009 - 04:18
“I personally think that Dyson spheres are silly, myself. There is more than enough matter on Earth to simulate a quadrillion beings for a quadrillion years.”
– interesting. I expect that someone will build some machine that taps almost all of the solar output before 2200. The reason is that energy is so instrumentally useful that you’d want it just to brute force the proof of your favorite mathematical theorem, if nothing else.
“It’s not very interesting to be like, “here’s the future!†and have a picture of a gigantic question mark. ”
– indeed. This is why I am very interested in the OB sequence on fun theory. I think that there should be something intermediate between the question mark and terraformed mars, though I’m not sure exactly how to express this.
Incidentally, how focused is h+ on popularity with a large audience these days?
January 26th, 2009 - 08:05
2200 will never come. Our brains will be accelerated by a factor of millions before 2100. 2200 won’t be for millions of years.
Yeah, Fun Theory is awesome. The most recent post on it did some nice explaining of its usefulness that I hadn’t thought of.
Medium-focused.
January 26th, 2009 - 09:34
Considering I’m the only person I’ve seen mention it at all? I couldn’t say.
However, the reason for the EM field isn’t to protect people from cosmic radiation. It’s to prevent solar storms from stripping the atmosphere. It is the lack of an electromagnetic “bubble” around Mars that has lead to the escape of its atmosphere over time. Each time a solar storm hits Mars, another chunk of its atmosphere reaches escape velocity.
And if you’re willing to go the vonNeumann approach to constructing EM generators for Mars, it gets less problematic.
I also find the concept somewhat nostalgiac as it invokes memories of Barsoom and John Carter. :)
Perhaps, but just because it’s there doesn’t mean it has a high level of availability. Or that it will be used for that purpose. I remain convinced that a significant portion of the human race will not opt for simulation. Even if it is only 1%, that’s still worth worrying about.
Especially when we further consider that if we’re all simulated and accelerated a few orders of magnitude, then the population of human minds could readily exceed a quadrillion individuals within a couple of decades.
January 26th, 2009 - 14:26
Michael said: “Medium-focused.”
– that’s interesting. I gathered a while ago that there was some consensus that public that much support wasn’t worth worrying. It seems like an interesting move.
February 26th, 2009 - 23:35
How could a Terrafrom Mars have so much water?
Where would it come from?
December 26th, 2009 - 19:16
@13 –
It is conceivable that Mars has deep rooted ice formation. If we were to pump massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, the resulting melted ice would evaporate into the atmosphere. — this could cause the water cycle to initiate… instead of a red planted, a blue planet with a cloud system and possibly large oceanic developments would birth. Though this is purely speculation.
October 18th, 2011 - 12:28
Shall I propose the “Let’s take all the CO2 on earth, and put it somewhere else” suggestion?
June 7th, 2010 - 18:29
Hey Michael, is this your work? I found a similar rolled out world map-like image on a shatters.net and the website is no longer up. I’m trying to find the creator. This planet view looks almost identical. I’m looking for the creator of:
Terraformed Mars Mark III. Would that be you?
July 12th, 2010 - 19:39
Hey, I saw your poster here on this blog and I would love to print these out and sell them to some science centers around some cities, if you’re the author, can I make some? I’m looking for the original artist too.
July 12th, 2010 - 19:58
Hi, this image is public domain.
No image I post on this blog is ever mine. It’s always public domain. You should assume that holds with every blog on the Internet.
April 14th, 2011 - 15:49
I gotta admit, this is really something we gotta look into.. I have an idea.. Would it be possible to harvest greenhouse gasses from Venus, and use them to help worlds like Mars perserve heat better?
September 30th, 2011 - 10:26
The terraforming of Mars WILL happen. It just won’t happen with the help of transhumanists. What do you think will happen to the hold outs? Those who reject transhumanism completely? Just as the Mennonites and the Amish reject technology and live simple, communal lives, the hold outs will eventually fall under the spell of some pseudo messianic visionary who claims that “We must build a new world for ourselves, free of the transhumanists. These “Betrayers of the Flesh†are an abomination before God.†or some other such nonsense. They will see Mars as their own new Manifest Destiny. It will take generations for them to do and they will be more than willing to do it.
The rejection of technology is a common theme in Science Fiction because it is a recurring issue in our past and present. To this day there are those who believe it is our destiny to suffer, toil and die.
January 24th, 2012 - 17:21
Hello very nice website!! Guy .. Beautiful .. Amazing .. I’ll bookmark your blog and take the feeds additionally?I’m satisfied to seek out a lot of helpful info here in the put up, we need develop more techniques on this regard, thank you for sharing. . . . . .