Should we or shouldn't we?
In addition, Walkowicz wasn't even convinced terraforming is physically possible.
"Despite terraforming’s hold on the popular imagination, it remains solidly in the realm of fiction," Walkowicz wrote at the time. "For one thing, Mars seems to lack the necessary reserves of carbon dioxide to pump up its atmosphere and warm it in the first place." To his credit, Green seems to have a level head on his shoulders about verifying life on other planets, and told thehe wants to make sure scientists are serious about any claim to have found even the smallest traces of it.
"A couple of years ago, scientists came out and said they’d seen phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus," Green told the publication. "At the level they saw it, which was enormous, that led them to believe life was one of the major possibilities. On the CoLD scale, where seven is 'we found life,' it is 'one.' It didn’t even make it to 'two.' Stop screwing around with just crying wolf.
Green leaves behind a legacy dusted with a voracious search for life, but it's not clear whether his plans for terraforming Mars will ever actually come to fruition. As he leaves a well-staffed and funded organization, some of his ideas may live only in theory on the papers he publishes, and if that's the case, not every scientist would be disappointed at a lack of results.
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