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A great sci-fi movie idea. In the far future, when Earth is suffering massive effects from a 5-degree warming, NASA launches more probes to Venus. One uncovers

A great sci-fi movie idea. In the far future, when Earth is suffering massive effects from a 5-degree warming, NASA launches more probes to Venus. One uncovers evidence that Venus not only once had life, but had civilization. After studying large number of artifacts, it is found they too had a climate crisis created by their civilization, one thats started with a run-away 6 degree rise, but failed to address it, which ultimately destroyed them. The movie ends with a potentially gloomy message that we may already be too late.

01100011 7y ago
A better movie: We use geoengineering to make Venus habitable and maintain Earth's climate in its current state. We double the effective surface area of the human race and all of Earth's species, while the idea of terraforming Mars is reduced to a silly joke. Instead of making a movie, we could actually do it. It sure beats the hell out of Mars.
- mabbo 7y ago
  You'd need a heck of an umbrella to block all that sunlight. Seriously, cooling it down via solar blockage is about the only way you could ever make Venus livable. Followed by massive removal of CO2 on the now-icy surface. Mars has the advantage that it's easy to make something hot- just use energy- while making something colder is more complicated. Also- here me out here- basketball on Mars will be insane. Venus still has, what, 80% of earth's gravity? Boring.
  - simcop2387 7y ago
    > You'd need a heck of an umbrella to block all that sunlight. Seriously, cooling it down via solar blockage is about the only way you could ever make Venus livable. Followed by massive removal of CO2 on the now-icy surface. This is part of a plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, definite recommend if you want some reading about terraforming. > Also- here me out here- basketball on Mars will be insane. Venus still has, what, 80% of earth's gravity? Boring. Even better, lunar water polo.

01100011 7y ago

A better movie: We use geoengineering to make Venus habitable and maintain Earth's climate in its current state. We double the effective surface area of the human race and all of Earth's species, while the idea of terraforming Mars is reduced to a silly joke. Instead of making a movie, we could actually do it. It sure beats the hell out of Mars.

mabbo 7y ago
You'd need a heck of an umbrella to block all that sunlight. Seriously, cooling it down via solar blockage is about the only way you could ever make Venus livable. Followed by massive removal of CO2 on the now-icy surface. Mars has the advantage that it's easy to make something hot- just use energy- while making something colder is more complicated. Also- here me out here- basketball on Mars will be insane. Venus still has, what, 80% of earth's gravity? Boring.
- simcop2387 7y ago
  > You'd need a heck of an umbrella to block all that sunlight. Seriously, cooling it down via solar blockage is about the only way you could ever make Venus livable. Followed by massive removal of CO2 on the now-icy surface. This is part of a plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, definite recommend if you want some reading about terraforming. > Also- here me out here- basketball on Mars will be insane. Venus still has, what, 80% of earth's gravity? Boring. Even better, lunar water polo.