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Old 08-05-2019, 07:13 AM   #23
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Default Re: Aerogel martian habitats.

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
Sure, but the point is, even speeding it up a million times is thousands of years.
The real bottleneck is that life creates wholesome conditions for life. Small amounts of biomass have small slow effects. It is the cumulative effects that make the big changes. The built up is incredibly slow, but once the tipping point is hit, change is rappid and profound. To speed up terraforming, you've got to get to the tipping point faster. Which is the vast problem.
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