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I personally would bombard with comets. Bring down the temperature and deposit water on the planet.
by xerox13ster 7y ago
I personally would bombard with comets. Bring down the temperature and deposit water on the planet.
- hutzlibu 7y agoAre there so many ice comets avaiable? Also, would the temperature really go down and not be negated by the kinetic impact? Apart from that, more water probably helps, if we do not need that water more urgently on mars.
- protomyth 7y agoIsn't the common scifi solution to drop some engineered bacteria into the atmosphere to convert the CO2 and generate a think ozone layer?
- throwaway894345 7y agoLet’s sort that out on Earth first. :p
- protomyth 7y agoWhy yes, let's test out something that can kill billions on Earth before trying it on an uninhabited area.
- hutzlibu 7y agoI think he meant, before we try to mess with a planet far away, we have a CO2 problem here on earth already urging to be solved in general. Not necessarily, to experiment wildly in the process here on earth.
- protomyth 7y agoI would bet the solution for Earth is going to be wildly different than one used on Venus. Earth will require carbon removal that can safety be used with people present. The Venus solutions all sound very, very unfriendly to be present for.
- throwaway894345 7y agoIt was a joke, relax.
- svaigsq 7y agoStap this nonsense. It is clear that there is overpopulation on this planet, where most of the population want to consume all available resources to them, but there must be easier ways to deal with that problem... CO2 is food for plants. If you take away CO2 out of atmosphere of Earth, it is end of life for oxygen breathing life - Earth is inhabited not only by intelligent morons. Rise of temperature on Earth is not caused by CO2(which is generated also by volcanoes), that is generated by humans, but by behavior of Sun. Winter around poles is caused by inclination of Earth - not because there is abundance of CO2... oh, I must have mixed something up, because when I started to read sci-fi, it was all about next Ice Age on Earth. And that we are doomed and that everyone will die. And we need to get to different planet. Despite that there are no habitable planets in reasonable distance. With no breathable air or water. And if there were, then we would be kicked out, if we tried to land. Because that is not how things works - if you have habitable planet, you should care about it. There is no H on Venus surface, so it is impossible to change Venus with local resources. So, they have to be imported - and there is H in comets. So, the only way to teraform Venus is with bombarding it with thousands of comets and space junk, that contains ice. Maybe getting H out of gas planets might be another source, too.
- JdeBP 7y agoNot since sci-fi authors figured out that, given human success rates at bioengineering, the likely result is an uninhabitable planet-wide nanotech/bacterial goo that eats anyone who lands. The ice comet solution has the added benefit of wiping out all of those pesky Martians, given the kinetic energies involved. Just ask any Pak Protector. (-:
- svaigsq 7y agoThere are billions of comets available https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt Then there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud Don't worry - there is more than enough comets to bomb the Mars with all the future settlements. Muhaha
- hutzlibu 7y agoGood to know ... otherwise a possible future would involve hunting and waging war for the few ice comets ..