Posted on 12/17/2005 7:32:32 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
Edited on 12/17/2005 8:31:35 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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First you don't read the article.
Then, you make a post that demostrates your ignorance nurtured by not reading the article, which is so recognizable that several FReepers on this thread reminded you in various ways to read before you post.
Then, no less than 6 FReepers tried to educate you on your following posts.
Then, in response to possibly learning something and thanking the FReepers who took the time to teach you, you instead squirm to find scientific, definitive, grammatical, or juvenile refuge for your ignorance, where none existed.
Brightside, using that process, combined with your current acumen, you should be staying in the dark forever.
I just found it ironic that you criticized me for not reading the article before remarking, while you obviously posted before reading my posts.
Don't throw stones...
Venus doesn't need to be conquered; it needs to be Mallified. Yes, I spelled that the way I wanted to.
We need to install strip malls and shopping malls and Malls-of-SolSystem all over Venus.
But we won't put them in that boiling cauldron of Too-Hot-for-H3ll-or-Texas atmosphere down at the surface.
Instead, we'll emplace rigid-skin floating cities in the upper atmosphere of Venus, choosing altitudes that provide sufficient warmth, and low enough pressure to be comfortable.
We'll have bubbles several miles in diameter, which will float in the thick Venusian atmosphere like marine buoys, perhaps with anchors descending into the literally Demonic region below to scrape up raw materials.
The walls of the bubbles will keep out the noxious fumes, allowing gases to penetrate only after being scrubbed and dismantled into useful air.
The upper surfaces of these bubbles will be highly reflective, bouncing the unneeded sunlight back harmlessly into space.
Over the course of millenia, as more and more of these cities in the sky are built and occupied, their reflective canopies and cool shadows will slowly allow Venus to be Terraformed, cooling it until eventually the water can finally fall as rain.
How long it takes will not matter. We will have our castles in the air.
Touches is the question, of course. What would it touch? The electron probability envelope would be kind of blurry considering that electrons orbit at speeds near the speed of light. If electrons actually orbit. Got to wonder what is 'really' going on in there.
When we finally escape our status as tenants of dukes and barons on earth we will probably be living inside of tin cans in free space. Planetary homesteads would be uncommon: as the population in space grows into billions and trillions, the fraction on surfaces would become less and less significant.
We know about 8.000 years worth of history from reading just exactly what newspaper?????
Why not look at it under a microscope!
Why do I have to do all the thinking around here?
There are some who believe they can actually touch matter. Some of them even believe matter can be solid.
Boy! What a bone-headed idea that is!
I picture an electron in its orbit as a form of standing wave, such as a soliton.
Um, why?
Because it removes the blame for global warming from SUVs, silly!
How about all these volcanoes farting into the air too?
Hard to follow the science with statements like these.
Just smooth them all away with a hockey stick graph.
LOL!
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