/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3904365]

so, /sci/...how do we even begin to terraform venus?

[Anonymous No.3904378]

>implying we have even started terraforming mars

[Anonymous No.3904383]

>>3904378
>Implying Mars is somehow easier to terraform than Venus

[Anonymous No.3904384]

>>3904378
say we do venus instead

[Anonymous No.3904385]

>>3904365

>Implying it isn't already terraforming itself as the sun gets older

[Anonymous No.3904388]

>>3904365
>implying we'll even get back to the moon in our lifetime, the way these fucking simians are running things

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3904394]

- Get a 30km diameter asteroid into orbit around Venus
- Using self-replicating robots and factories begin converting asteroid mass into a thin, impact resistant, slightly photovoltaic translucent material
- Make enough to encompass Venus in a cylinder with the above the poles exposed so it's not subjected to the intense radiation but ships can still fly in. Make it rotate so it doesn't collapse under Venus' gravity.
- Set transparency to 2%, over the course of a decade or two Venus will cool down and the atmosphere will freeze out into dry ice chunks covering the ground. Deploy self-replicating robots and mass drivers to launch half of the carbon dioxide mass away from the planet, perhaps to be used in terraforming projects on Mars, Luna and Mercury.
- Send comets from Kuiper belt also shrouded by some thin reflective material to bombard Venus, forming oceans. Try and hit it on one side continuously to speed up the rotation somewhat.
- After enough water is deposited to cover around 40% of Venus, and a fair bit of atmosphere has been jettisoned, increase transparency to about 22 - 25% and use the electricity from the orbital shroud to enforce an artificial magnetic field.

[Anonymous No.3904395]

>>3904383
>implying it isnt

[Anonymous No.3904407]

>>3904394

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3904413]

>>3904407

[Anonymous No.3904414]

>>3904365
..but since we're being theoretical..

Start by devising a way to strip about 99% of the atmosphere away from the planet. If you have thousands of years, you can move a nice big asteroid into Venus's orbit, and voila, Venus has a moon now. Better check how it's going to perturb the orbits of everything else, though, or you may have to step up your terraforming, move there soon, because you inadvertedly started making Earth uninhabitable.

[Anonymous No.3904416]

I don't know, I think we should terraform Uranus because it's so much bigger

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3904419]

>>3904414
>Start by devising a way to strip about 99% of the atmosphere away from the planet.
Bad baaaad idea. When you add lots of water to Venus it is going to want a nice thick atmosphere to eat it all up to create carbonate rocks. And besides, humans can live in 45 atmospheres of pressure temporarily if Mad Scientist's threads on ambient pressure habitats has taught me anything.

[Anonymous No.3904426]

>>3904416
>goes to terraform Uranus
>strips away atmosphere
>finds something the size of the Moon

[Anonymous No.3904434]

>>3904426
dude have you seen uranus?

[Anonymous No.3904437]

Why not terraform Pluto while we're at it?

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3904442]

>>3904437
Why not make Pluto a moon of Venus? And THEN terraform it?

[Anonymous No.3904445]

>>3904434
>>3904426
>>3904416

OH U

[Anonymous No.3904468]

>>3904434
No, but your mom did last night when she was rimming me.

[resident /sci/ economist !!0CqB7P/574e No.3904470]

Guis guis,

Lets up everything in orbit around the moon, and then terraform all of it.

[Anonymous No.3904471]

>>3904395
It isn't. Venus is very much like a primordial Earth prior to the Oxygen crisis.
>>3904419
If we oxygenate the atmosphere, 90% of the atmosphere is going to react with the crust until saturation anyways, just like it did on Earth before the oxygen crisis. It's simple, really. All we do is have to tip the scales, and keep the organic material precipitated out of the atmosphere by photosynthesis from reacting with the oxygen again (i.e. compress it to graphite or BURY THAT SHIT DEEP so we can mine it and burn it later when we decide to globally warm that planet as well). Oh yeah, and the whole issue of creating water is a hard one... but at least the hydrogen for the needed processes is light enough to bring with you.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3904472]

Glorious beautifying sister planet bump