Terraforming Venus

[Boerseun]

I think humans will have become obsolete long before we run out of living space on Earth.

Our future as a species is limited; so far there have only been one single planet in the whole vastness of space found that can support us as a species. And we don't take too kindly to competing with other species - we kill'em off, eat'em and move on. We're the interplanetary locusts the Jedi Bible warned its readers about.

Luckily, things are slowly changing. Our future as a blood-and-guts species is limited, in my opinion we won't last another two hundred years, save for very tiny pockets of resistance, ignorance and low bandwidth. What will carry on our legacy is machines. Intelligent machines able to survive on pure energy alone. None of this metabolism-bullshit. We cut out the middleman and run on sunlight. Or nuclear power. Or however you can get voltage and amperes.

The future is bright, the future is mechanical!

And once we reach that stage, terraforming is no longer required. We've already succesfully landed the proto-forms of our future race on Venus, Mars, Titan, name it, we've been (mostly) there. There's even a few of our offspring on their way to the stars, as we speak. Very rudimentary forms, surely we'll evolve into a more powerful and practical form of machine intelligence. But the point is made.

So, if we're to fantasise about the far future when these massive technologies are possible to move planets, let me fantasise the other angle and tell you that in my opinion, it simply won't be necessary because flesh-and-blood humans will die off in the very soon future, and our mechanical offspring will have no problem with living in the harsh acidic hell that is Venus today. So why move it?