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Despite the bombastic title, it’s just a plant - it needs water, nutrients and the right amount of CO2.

If you want to terraform, you shouldn't bother with other planets when there's plenty of areas on Earth begging to be terraformed, such as the deserts Sahara, Great Australian, Arabian, Gobi, Kalahari, Syrian, Chihuahuanetc and most of the western US. Save yourself from certain death and make a fortune here at home developing land that can't be used and no one wants.

> Save yourself from certain death

Death is already certain anyway. Might as well make it an exciting one.

probably not what you meant, but: are you saying that we shouldn't care about global warming as long as we have fun?

Death may be inevitable, but it's still best to die on one's own terms when possible, rather than it being imposed on oneself like global warming is.

The term for this is terraforming and there’s been a lot of research into it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming