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Common yeast can survive Martian conditions

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90 points geox | 3 comments | 14 Oct 25 22:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.536s | source
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WalterBright ◴[22 Oct 25 23:40 UTC] No.45676543[source]▶
We should be dropping bags of extremophile organisms into the Martian atmosphere to get a start on terraforming it.
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schwartzworld ◴[22 Oct 25 23:40 UTC] No.45676548[source]▶
The best time to start terraforming a planet is 500 years ago. The second best time is now.
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1. weregiraffe ◴[23 Oct 25 07:42 UTC] No.45679271[source]▶
The best time to start terraforming a planet is never. The idea is as absurd as a Dyson sphere/swarm. People should really grow beyond sci-fi ideas that were last fresh in the 1930's.
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2. randallsquared ◴[23 Oct 25 11:15 UTC] No.45680543[source]▶
What's better, and on what metric(s)?
3. ACCount37 ◴[23 Oct 25 12:27 UTC] No.45681054[source]▶
No. Sci-fi ideas from the 1930s beat the myopic doomerism of 2020s, and it's not even a contest.