Re: How to really terraform (part 1)

From: G EddieA95 (geddiea95_at_aol.com)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: 13 Jun 2004 15:36:00 GMT

>OK, the only solar system body that can be terraformed realistically
>is Mars. Venus is too hot, and has too much CO2. Titan is too cold,
>and too reduced - we'd never get n oxygen atmosphere.

You're not thinking big enough. Sunshields around Venus (mod maybe 2,000 years
of cooling). Geothermal at Titan (but then you face loss of atmosphere to
sublimation).

Of course, this implies some rather low values of "realistically". By the time
we can *realistically* even begin at Mars, we will probably say to hell with
it, and build buttkicking orbital space cities instead, using Earth as a nature
park and the other planets as strip mines.

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