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Originally Posted by Donkey Jote
Not really a legitimate comparison...
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it might be. in thousands of years time, future humans might be asking "how many probes did they send to mars before they started terraforming it ?" and they might be shocked that we did it so soon or even tried at all. we are surprised today at what our ancestors did, but we do not live in the era they lived, and have hindsight and centuries of technological development to inform our opinions today.