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wolvoleo 4 hours ago

Doing something like that at planetary scale is science fiction anyway even if we did have the tech to do it.

baq 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Talking to computers and expecting computers to answer coherent English was science fiction 4 years ago. Don’t lose faith

generic92034 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would not be so pessimistic. Look what the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria have done for our atmosphere.

wincy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe we’ll turn all of Mars into paperclips with our efforts! Glorious paperclips. First Mars, then the universe!

naravara 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you can kick off self-sustaining biological processes it’ll happen on its own eventually, but you’d just be looking at generational time scales to do it.

Of course you’ll probably have lots of side-effects.