I am 100% confident that should human society settle on the planet we will totally ignore the fact that's going to happen one day and it will be a amazing catastrophe when it finally does occur.
Isn't that pretty much exactly what we've done on earth? Not that I think there's really much else we can reasonably do.
I mean when you think about it, the Earth is an uninhabitable hellscape with frequent tectonic activity, asteroid impacts, freak weather events, supervolcanoes, etc.
How 'one day' is that one day volcanic event on Venus compared to one of the extinction events Earth has had?
Earth is pretty stable in comparison. Yeah, we have had pretty big events but the biggest threat is a big volcano, a meteor, pretty noticable and relatively small.
The whole planet exploding, however? Lava flowing across the whole planet at the same time? Hilariously catastrophic.
For those interested in Si-Fi novels, there's a recent hugo award winning trilogy, The Broken Earth Series[1]. It imagines a world that is much more geologically active than earth, with much more frequent cataclysmic events, and what that would mean for the development of civilization, culture, society, and even the evolution of life.
> Lava flowing across the whole planet at the same time?
The relevant question from the GP was, how long ago was the last time this happened on Venus? Because we've got something similar here around 60 million years ago.
Yep! Except on earth we don't have any massive planet wide disruptions. Should we ever settle Venus there will be a day that countless billions die in a preventable tragedy that dwarfs all others.
