Where are you going to put the co2 after it snows down?
Venus terraforming
Jordan Reed
Landon Morales
Based German space poster. Were you the one posting the Antarctica stuff a while back?
T. Thought police
Daniel Martinez
>pool global resources to spend trillions of dollars researching and putting into action the multi-century long process of making Venus habitable
>this is fine
>spending a fraction to keep Earth sustainable long term
>Stalinist communism takeover of the entire planet!
Nathaniel Stewart
I don’t think Jewish people are a problem, they mix with the white race.
Nathan Hall
The thing with Venus is that there's mass to work with. The atmosphere is extremely thick, dense.
It seems like if we could engineer some sort of cloud-borne bacteria/algae/fungus that could survive in the clouds of Venus terraforming it wouldn't be impossible.
With Mars, you're starting from scratch. There's almost no atmosphere. Any atmosphere you do build up is probably going to get blown away by the solar winds.
Venus has everything it needs to be habitable - except the horrible dense sulphuric acid atmosphere. But, one would think there has to be a way of fixing that via microorganisms or something.
At least with Venus you're changing a terrible atmosphere to a livable atmosophere, versus Mars where you're changing almost no atmosphere to a full atmosphere. Mars terraforming never made sense to me. Where does all the mass come from? How do you retain the atmosphere?
With Venus you have shit you can work with. It's very hard to work with, but at least it's there.
Jacob Lopez
The Venus atmosphere is most likely the result of volcanic ash.
>Earth is one tectonic plate shift away from becoming Venus.
Andrew Diaz
Well, first it rains down and fills the lower plains. We can make sure the snow comes down mostly at the poles and through reheating the non-pole areas we can get the liquid CO2 to vaporize and then snow in the poles again.
Essentially you either keep the poles in total darkness forever to make sure the CO2 never turns to liquid and then evaporates... or you have to cover it with a planket (not entirely impossible).
Carson Sanchez
Somehow drag some giant comets out of the Oort Cloud and slam them into Venus at an angle that would cause the rotation to speed up. The icy comets would provide oceans.
Adrian Taylor
Venus would be a great candidate for cloud cities, with just brief excursions to the surface for raw materials. Bladders filled with Methane would provide the lift to keep them afloat. That technique actually puts the habitat up in layers of the atmosphere that have the correct pressure for humans to exist without pressure suits. Although your habitat would still need a way to provide the proper amount of nitrogen in the air, because I think a pure oxygen environment would be hard to deal with...
Anthony Hughes
>please nuke Yellowstone
Yeah, that. Is there no way to just "drain" the atmosphere away in the same way that Mars lost its atmosphere?