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While it is true that there are no wildfires on Venus, there is also no wood, or oxygen. Any oxygen released immediately reacts with the dirt to make, largely,
by moloch-hai 4y ago
While it is true that there are no wildfires on Venus, there is also no wood, or oxygen. Any oxygen released immediately reacts with the dirt to make, largely, more CO2.
If you wanted to terraform Venus, you would need to make diamonds out of the air so the carbon wouldn't just burn again. The oxygen you release would then react with the dirt and rocks to make more familiar minerals, and more CO2, of course. For a long time.
The whole surface would be a mile deep in diamonds before you finished. Hardly any water: the solar wind, not deflected by a magnetic field, carried most of that off. She probably had a field when she still rotated fast enough.
Earth gets to keep her water because the moon keeps us rotating enough to keep a magnetic field. Mars lost his because he is too small to keep a liquid core to generate the field with.
- downrightmike 4y agoYeah, I was pointing out that atmos can store a ton of CO2, past a certain point life be damned. Our lungs only work on the differential in the air lower to our body's.