We shouldn't even talk about terraforming other planets until we've succeeded at turning Sahara into not-desert...

We shouldn't even talk about terraforming other planets until we've succeeded at turning Sahara into not-desert. If we can't do that much we can't do it at all.

It would be a great test bed to try out terraforming techniques.

Though, we're also not sure what that would do to atmospheric stability of our planet either. Millions of square kilometers of new plant life could seriously fuck with shit.

Exactly. We also need to build trial space colonies. Antarctica would be good.

Terraforming other planets and greening deserts are two completely different things.

If whites were an expanding population with right wing governments, and sahara was still under colonial governments, then mass desalination + irrigation would definately be happening.

Could also do something like drain the mediterrean

they aren't "completely different" do you know what those fucking words even mean? They are pretty close to being the same than they are to being different. Regardless of the dumb semantics, that's not an argument.

>plant trees and transform deserts into Edens
>the local wildlife cut all the trees like retards and reform a desert in less than a century
Dude, the whole of arabia and north africa was fucking lush.
Until we slaughter the subhumans, no aforestation will take hold.

Scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observed since the early 1980s in satellite data, springs at least in part from the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. Now, a study of arid regions around the globe finds that a carbon dioxide "fertilization effect" has, indeed, caused a gradual greening from 1982 to 2010.

phys.org/news/2013-05-elevated-carbon-dioxide-arid-regions.html

Because it is so hard for money to turn seawater into non salty water and ... Water...

Because you don't want to fuck up the ecosphere you're in maybe?

The water has got to come from somewhere. And its not enough to just put it there, it has to cycle. Do you think that won't affect other areas?

Hell, 22 ktons of dust from the Sahara reaches and fertilises the Amazon rainforest each year. Just stopping that will have widespread effects.

Practice on the worlds that don't matter first.

lolwut

Kill yourself.

>22 ktons of dust from the Sahara reaches and fertilises the Amazon rainforest each year
With the rate the Amazon rainforest is shrinking that ain't going to matter.

What would Mars look like after we've magically created an atmosphere? Oh that's right, a fucking dessert!

yes it would. that would cause the Amazon to not only shrink FASTER, but stop producing ENTIRELY.

the fuck kind of point are you trying to make?

No you nigger, that's not how it works
You just can't get rid of deserts
They are formed by the atmosphere and it's winds, coupled with geography, and the Sahara in particular provides nutrition for the Amazon jungle.

"fixing" a necessary result of terraformation is in no way similar to terraforming a planet

One simple and brute force idea is to dig up distributaries to allow sea water to flow into the desert to get evaporated, possibly increasing the humidity level in the desert.

poopoo and peepee animal make grass grow good, make plant grow good, root hold stuff together
delicious

Right, greening deserts is actually much, much easier to do.

Terraforming would work on a whole-atmosphere level. You can't isolate the Sahara. We could try playing around with warming, cooling and dimming agents in order to fuck up ocean currents and sunlight exposure and maybe get the job done, but unlike Mars, damage can be done elsewhere that we'd care about.

There were plans for that in the past, digging canals to below sealevel depressions. The problem is that increasing the humidity wouldn't cause precipitation because of how the hadley cells work.

>building a patio this summer
>took a week
>sun up to sun down
>enjoying first beer and steak on patio with family
>shit was hard
>fuck terraforming

God bless Murica

>>shit was hard
Get some more fibre, you fat American.

>Millions of square kilometers of new plant life could seriously fuck with shit.

Right, because why? No reason.

if another planet was like the Sahara in terms of livability it would be an oasis in space compared to everything else out there.

I mean the Sahara has breathable air, temperatures within survivable limits, some water present at the surface, wildlife and plantlife.

even Antarctica is far more habitable than any other planet we know of.

Reminder that ancient nigger farmers turned that place into a desert with bad farming practices.

Reminder that we almost did the same thing with the dust bowl.

First we need to test efficient methods of genocide though otherwise it will be pointless.

>turning Sahara into not-desert
Trouble is, the area is full of people who will kill you. Never mind that you can give them a decent life and a reasonable life expectancy. But no. Killing it is.

You could use the water to cool solar electric cells. And the evaporate would have to rain down somewhere, possibly a place that also need some rain.

Answer this question: Why are there an order of magnitude more trees in the Dominican Republic than Haiti when both countries are on the same fucking island?

Black people fucking hate trees for some reason. Maybe they remind them of ropes.

The Sahara isn't a lifeless hell. Trying to "terraform" it would be fucking stupid and pointless.

lmfao

Disregarding everything else, politics would be a big problem. Even if someone like Musk wanted to "terraform" the Libyan desert, you'd need to go through their government first.

And last week 70+ people were either killed or injured because a monkey tore off a girl's hijab over there. Mars is probably easier to deal with.

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>draws pol as obese, shitskin with a big jew nose to be insulting
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

Why don't nonwhites just plant new trees after they cut the existing ones down?

>> space colonies on earth
We tried that once, and it failed partly due to the actions of our vice president elect

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Can't be much worse than millions of square kilometers of machines spewing carbon dioxide.