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I'm more excited by the prospect that we've started terraforming Venus. It has an atmosphere, and with a lot of CO2. Wouldn't take many surviving plant microbes
by delecti 7y ago
I'm more excited by the prospect that we've started terraforming Venus. It has an atmosphere, and with a lot of CO2. Wouldn't take many surviving plant microbes on one of the probes we've sent to start things off. Get the CO2 under control and in a few million years it might be downright balmy.
- Retric 7y agoEdit: ops grand parent mentioned Mars and it’s atmosphere is extremely thin. For comparison at 35,000 feet on earth it’s 3.4 psi. On mars at ground level it’s 0.088 psi. Add in being 53% further from the sun and would take quite a bit to make Mars habitable. Venus has the opposite problem sitting much closer to the sun and with much higher atmospheric pressure.
- mrfusion 7y agoI think the big problem is that there is no water on Venus though?
- throwaway5752 7y agoThe problem is there's very little hydrogen on Venus. It has next to no magnetic field, too. Days last 243 Earth days. There are a lot of problems with Venus.
- thechao 7y agoThis sounds like a conversation between a used-planet-salesman & a middle-aged couple who’re ‘just looking’.
- Analemma_ 7y agoCorrect me if I’m wrong, but terraforming Venus’s atmosphere wouldn’t do anything about the pressure, right? Even if all that CO2 became oxygen, and it cooled off a bit, Venus would still have almost 100 atmospheres of pressure at the surface and still be basically uninhabitable.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoBecause of the thickness of the atmosphere, Venus is probably more suited to floating cloud cities.
- guenthert 7y agoWell, at this time, we're venusforming Terra though.