*Presto!*
Your moon will be Terraformed with great speed and silliness.
Posted on 04/22/2016 11:30:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Within the Jupiter system, there are 67 confirmed moons of varying size, shape and composition. In honor of Jupiter’s namesake, they are sometimes collectively referred to as the Jovians. Of these, the four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – are known as the Galileans (in honor of their founder, Galileo Galilei). These four moons are among the largest in the Solar System, with Ganymede being the largest of them all, and even larger than the planet Mercury.
In addition, three of these moons – Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – are all believed or known to have interior oceans at or near their core-mantle boundary. The presence of warm water oceans is not only considered an indication of potential life on these moons, but is also cited as a reason for possible human habitation.
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The process of converting Jupiter’s Galilean moons is really quite simple. Basically, its all about leveraging the indigenous resources and the moons’ own interactions with Jupiter’s magnetic field to create a breathable atmosphere. The process would begin by heating the surface in order to sublimate the ice, a process which could involve orbital mirrors to focus sunlight onto the surface, nuclear detonators, or crashing comets/meteors into the surface.
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Basically, the exposure of water vapor to Jupiter’s radiation would result in the creation of hydrogen and oxygen gas, the former of which would escape into space while the latter remained closer to the surface. This process already takes place around Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, and is responsible for their tenuous atmospheres (which contain oxygen gas).
And since ammonia is predominantly composed of nitrogen, it could be converted into nitrogen gas (N²) through the introduction of certain strains of bacteria....
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
*Presto!*
Your moon will be Terraformed with great speed and silliness.
Genesis device? (make sure to know where Spock is)
:’) Just got to get used to living under a night sky.
Anything other than Mars or Venus don’t seem to be good places to terraform to me.
A Kurt Vonnegut reader I see
I read that book back in 1967.
I got to meet Vonnegut and had the pleasure
of his company for dinner a few months later.
He was incredibly funny.
And incredibly drunk.
There, fixed it!
Regards,
Blast a rocket filled with kudzu, then wait...
We can’t even go back to our own moon....
Jupiter is a long ways away, through the asteroid belt, and cold..... first, can we terraform our own moon, and then Mars?
or will the space aliens there prevent us?
“Farmer in the Sky” by Robert Heinlein.
And so it goes
The EPA won’t allow it.
Gee, I’d think we’d at least try to terraform Detroit or something like that first.
America is to busy keepin it reeeeeeal, and we have enough of la raza here never to have to worry about going into space again. There will be no Mars landing, no terraforming, no trips to the stars. Just graffiti, urine-soaked streets, decaying cities and burning tires
The moslem outreach agency formerly known as NASA can send moslems to Jupiter.
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