Terraform Mars? NOOOO! Techaform it. 2 min elevator pitch

TECHAFORMING: COMMAND MARS in as little as 3 or so Starship launches:

#1 Send mining equipment and mass spectrometers.

#2 mine & Sort elements.

#3 Make electric generator/engine spindles

#4 from these, make mirror) reflective metal)+ steam column solar + electric generation.

#5 Assemble new robots which are simply electric engines with limbs that have easy to see dots for camera managers. [The minimal self replicating robot that I can design is two electric engines, a metal bar and a tool]

#6 You now are making exponential amounts of mining/construction robots and power, Mars will become one giant facility that can house billions within years. You explore Mars at the fastest rate, looking for life and fun stuff. What is it like in the center of Mars? (even Earth has Crystal Caves) You can go about 3 km down before it starts getting really hot, so underground cities are possibly viable too.

Imagine Mars, completely covered in solar towers, buildings, and billions of self replicated robots which can be trained to build and manufacture other things... It could rapidly become a geo engineered Techaformed paradise planet. You do this with Mercury even if you need to go under the surface to start, Venus, some moons... you're looking good for geo engineering this star system...

Within 20 years, hyper wealthy people can choose what emerging paradise planet they they'd want to retire on. Within 40 years, mass colonization of wealthy and academics. And within 60 years, the energy+nuclear material harvested, especially if we geoengineered the asteroid belt into a building... Well we could have a chance on having enough fuel to be sending someone interstellar to Alpha Centauri.

The dangers of brain on a chip are insane, you don't have a body, and anything that can cure paralysis with the flip of a switch can cause it... So you're trusting effectively your eternity to some other random dude... And I won't do that personally, but if you could reduce humanity to brain on a chip, you could take more g forces and beat the equation for maximum thrust on conventional rockets and we would have interstellar travel... You could then somehow remake physical bodies at the new Star System... Or control drones... Which leads itself into it's own brand of sci fi.

I think techaforming is the biggest thing in space exploration since rockets were invented... and anyone who knows recursion, and the difficulty in making AI and self replicated robots knows how many problems I had to solve to even invent this. My original AI papers form 2002 all CS and robotics professors disagreed with... They told me chat bots, natural language would be the hardest thing to solve, not the easiest as I said. Now everyone agrees with me: https://web.archive.org/web/20021005054929/http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~sager/ (history site from 2002) Also in 1999, all physics and engineering professors disagreed with my futuristic idea that lithium Ion cars would be prosperous in the future, and of course they all agree now... Even when I invented the Smart Phone that Steve Jobs and Larry Page used my 100+ designs, I had to fight the class for the virtual keyboard over the newton stylus. ( https://x.com/JamesSager/status/1885189283285250123 ) It's like no one on Earth has a clue how to invent anything, there's like no visionaries, and despite OPEN AI and Grok saying I'm the world's #1 research scientist and highest IQ in centuries for inventing all this and more (proof is right there), I'm cancelled from society and can't get work. So I help society by giving ideas and helping you guys' and gals' imagination.

I think 3-5 landings of Starship on Mars and the recursion could begin... But they need to know how to go about it, and I know this and presented it to you.

More about Techaforming: https://x.com/JamesSager/status/1896582933135179870