Water power

[Thinking Aloud]

No, it actually has less life per acre than a parking lot.

So what? Volume of life per m3 has nothing to do with an area's ecological value.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

No, it actually has less life per acre than a parking lot.

So what? Volume of life per m3 has nothing to do with an area's ecological value.

People want to terraform Mars. Irrigating a desert is trivial by comparison.

[Clinton Huxley]

Hmmm. Sounds like a recipe for homogeneity to me.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hmmm. Sounds like a recipe for homogeneity to me.

20,000 years ago the Sahara was verdant. Today it is a blasted wasteland.

[Thinking Aloud]

No, it actually has less life per acre than a parking lot.

So what? Volume of life per m3 has nothing to do with an area's ecological value.

People want to terraform Mars. Irrigating a desert is trivial by comparison.

Terraforming Mars is the conversion of a (probably) dead planet to one suitable for living on. Converting the Sahara would not be an insignificant alteration to the biosphere of the only planet we currently can live on.

[Thinking Aloud]

Hmmm. Sounds like a recipe for homogeneity to me.

20,000 years ago the Sahara was verdant. Today it is a blasted wasteland.

20,000 years ago, most of the northern hemisphere was covered with ice four miles thick.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hmmm. Sounds like a recipe for homogeneity to me.

20,000 years ago the Sahara was verdant. Today it is a blasted wasteland.

20,000 years ago, most of the northern hemisphere was covered with ice four miles thick.

And?

[Clinton Huxley]

Hmmm. Sounds like a recipe for homogeneity to me.

20,000 years ago the Sahara was verdant. Today it is a blasted wasteland.

not to the creatures adapted to it. Tinker with it and I reckon you'd just get more of the usual invasive species and weeds.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

No, it actually has less life per acre than a parking lot.

So what? Volume of life per m3 has nothing to do with an area's ecological value.

People want to terraform Mars. Irrigating a desert is trivial by comparison.

Terraforming Mars is the conversion of a (probably) dead planet to one suitable for living on. Converting the Sahara would not be an insignificant alteration to the biosphere of the only planet we currently can live on.

You realize that the Sahara is a drain on the global environment, right?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hmmm. Sounds like a recipe for homogeneity to me.

20,000 years ago the Sahara was verdant. Today it is a blasted wasteland.

not to the creatures adapted to it. Tinker with it and I reckon you'd just get more of the usual invasive species and weeds.

Show me the data on that.

[Thinking Aloud]

Hmmm. Sounds like a recipe for homogeneity to me.

20,000 years ago the Sahara was verdant. Today it is a blasted wasteland.

20,000 years ago, most of the northern hemisphere was covered with ice four miles thick.

And?

Balances. You want verdant green at that latitude, something else has got to give somewhere else.

[Clinton Huxley]

Hmmm. Sounds like a recipe for homogeneity to me.

20,000 years ago the Sahara was verdant. Today it is a blasted wasteland.

some variant of the naturalistic fallacy?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hmmm. Sounds like a recipe for homogeneity to me.

20,000 years ago the Sahara was verdant. Today it is a blasted wasteland.

20,000 years ago, most of the northern hemisphere was covered with ice four miles thick.

And?

Balances. You want verdant green at that latitude, something else has got to give somewhere else.

Not true.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hmmm. Sounds like a recipe for homogeneity to me.

20,000 years ago the Sahara was verdant. Today it is a blasted wasteland.

some variant of the naturalistic fallacy?

Nope, just the research I saw at Purdue.

[Clinton Huxley]

we know, everything happened at Purdue.