The Aesthetic of Terraforming

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The Aesthetic of Terraforming

Obviously, colonists have infinite patience regarding investments whose returns keep up with a traveling wave, much as terraformers have infinite patience regarding investments in creating new habitable worlds. However, world destroyers do also show infinite patience in destroying newly terraformed worlds if those worlds are to be inhabited by threatening species like the one now inhabiting Sol-3.

the most puzzling astrophysical observation is the vast quantities of unused resources out there, unless those resources are being used in ways unknown to us.

large engineering projects, such as required to collecting most of the light of a star or to extract much of its mass, just take too long to produce an acceptable rate of return, and this explains why otherwise peaceful civilizations turn to war and conquest of inhabitated worlds while, at the same time, it explains both the unused resources and the absence of large visible engineering projects that we see.

Luckily, we live in a large quiet region with few competitors. This frustrate SETI advocates, but SETI advocates ignore what is to live in a region of the galaxy where competing civilizations destroy each other for the very same reason Sol-3 destroys itself: lack of resources.



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