There's a lot of water on Venus isn't it? It's water vapor trapped in the atmosphere though. There is no liquid water on Venus however.
Image of the surface of Venus from the Russian Venera-13 lander.
Posted on 11/22/2004 11:23:47 AM PST by RockinRight
Science ping to read tonight at work.
So each hour is 1.65 minutes longer than an Earth hour? Interesting.
John Kerry's ancestors.
Have you ever been to Norway?
Why not just make Mars the conservative planet? Since it will take ingeniuity and entrepreneurship to make it work, it makes sense!
Then the term "red planet" would have new significance!
Didn't think about the day length. You're right.
Hehe...think about those electoral maps!
RZ: The basis of ethics needs to be of benefit to humanity.
This sets off all the warning bells and hazard lights. If the basis of ethics is "benefit to humanity," I damned well want to know how the author defines "benefits," and probably need to know whom he includes in "humanity." Any number of horrors or idiocies have been justified as being "of benefit to humanity."
Okay, maybe I'm just philosophically anal.
There have been some interesting proposals regarding Venus to hit it with ice asteroids to introduce water, blast away some of the excess atmosphere, cool the surface, and increase its rotational period from its current 116 days to something a bit more practical.
BTW, it would be prudent to disassemble the two moons of Mars and use those resources to transform, because eventually both objects will crash into Mars. Though, I do believe there is microscopic life on Mars, small animals the size of dust mites swarming in the top soil. The rovers have instruments designed to resolve geological and nonorganic chemical issues, we will need to send rovers equipped for examing organic issues soon.
There's a lot of water on Venus isn't it? It's water vapor trapped in the atmosphere though. There is no liquid water on Venus however.
Image of the surface of Venus from the Russian Venera-13 lander.
He's making a sound-bite response to the people who think that bacteria should override human development - those who claim that it's unethical to destroy Martian bacteria in the process of building a new branch of human civilization.
You're right about the moons but it kills my fantasy-standing on the surface and seeing two moons in the sky, even if they are small and lumpy.
That's like saying we can't kill cows for food, IMHO.
> Venus would be much more difficult.
In it's way, Venus would be *less* difficult. Notice where Venus' atmosphere reaches one standard atmosphere of pressure... and what the temperature is there.
> There's no water on Venus
There are oceans of water on Venus... trapped in the sulphuric acid. Relatively easily cracked and utilized.
> 1000 times the atmosphere we'd need, not to mention it's all CO2
All to the better.
> it would be difficult to cool it off enough to be habitable.
No need to do so whatsoever.
Its 243 days, not 116
Don't Mess With The Martian Environment!
Oh. In that case, Bactine th' little microscopic scum.
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