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anglagard
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05-17-2015 9:55 PM


In a few recent posts others and I have promoted the idea of terraforming and/or colonizing other bodies of the solar system as a solution to both the environmental and physical limitations of providing for an expanding human population and quality of life and also as a solution for the inherent human need among some to expand their horizons.
Any effort at eventual colonization requires that we recognize how inhospitable the environment of space or objects without atmospheres is to multicellular life due to various forms of harmful radiation and how the lack of gravity eventually interferes with bodily integrity. There are potential solutions to these problems such as heavy insulation, centrifugal force, and burrowing underground. I would like to explore such problems and potential solutions as a necessary part of this discussion.
Just to get things started, I believe any solar body that has dirt and water, or can potentially obtain dirt or water if lacking one or the other, is a candidate with the exception of the actual planetary bodies of the gas giants due to gravity and for obvious reasons the actual surface of the sun (Hollywood not withstanding).
As I have stated before, one could terraform Mars with some selective cometary orbit adjustments, shade Venus and provide it with some genetically engineered bacteria that eats carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, and place fusion reactors on Ganymeade and Callisto (to start, many other moons are also candidates), for warmth, electricity, desalinization and industry. Even space can potentially be colonized using some variant of Gerard K. O'Neill's cylinders.
Sometimes my PNTs work and sometimes they die of neglect, nonetheless, I think there may be some interest and I sure would like to hear others thoughts in this forum.
I think science forum would be best,
Edited by anglagard, : Remove double variant of heat.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon

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05-18-2015 10:30 AM
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05-17-2015 9:55 PM


Relevance?
I am having trouble seeing how this is relevant to the creation/evolution discussion. I noticed that when I couldn't find a science forum that it seems to fit in.
Maybe you should just put it in coffee house and have a go at it?

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anglagard
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05-18-2015 2:17 PM
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05-18-2015 10:30 AM


Re: Relevance?
Coffee House would be fine.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon

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05-18-2015 3:09 PM


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