Could you pump as much water in the ocean as is to be added per year by the melting ice and then put it on a rocket and ship it to Mars? I have no idea. The cost of picking up cities and moving them inland 50 miles is probably more than shipping water to Mars. Can we just get 500 million jugs of Poland spring delivered to another planet? It's probably get it involved discount a Costco.
Have we disproven the idea of a “goldilocks zone”? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Paul Mecurio learn about space geology, magnetic fields, volcanoes, and the origins of life with cosmochemist Natalie Starkey, PhD.
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