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How Do We Terraform Jupiter’s Moons?
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Posted on 04/22/2016 11:30:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: ghosthost

The dumbing down over the years and the tv viewing of the kardasians and the bachelor, dancing with the stars and the voice have deadened what has been dead since the 50’s.I have no great expectations


21 posted on 04/23/2016 4:11:49 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ghosthost

That sounds very realistic. The whole north american continent turned into a third wold hell hole that used to speak english. You have to wonder if the future of mankind lies in the west.


22 posted on 04/23/2016 4:12:15 AM PDT by x_plus_one (Lose with Cruz.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Neo-Sapiens might be a problem if created.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gTPKe0wOZY


23 posted on 04/23/2016 4:17:33 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Jonty30

E-Frames and some judicious nuclear blasts ala Exosquad?


24 posted on 04/23/2016 4:18:28 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: BenLurkin

“How Do We Terraform Jupiter’s Moons?”

Well, had things gone according to plan, we would have been orbiting Saturn in 1972, but then Nixon stepped in and stopped it cold before it was born. Next, we settled on using antique tech to visit and land on the Moon, but Nixon stopped that cold also. Now we are hitching rides on Russian rockets to LEO and using Russian rocket engines to launch our most important satellites.

Then, today, some idiot asks how to transform moons of a planet we are not likely to visit in the life time of any one alive today.

The question is how do we get to Jupiter, lacking the means? How do we get back to the Moon for that matter? And which future politician will have the spectacular failure of political will, rivaling Nixon’s, killing any such venture beyond his control cold?

Don’t even ask about terraforming ... that cart is so far ahead of the horse that it may as well be over the horizon.


25 posted on 04/23/2016 4:45:32 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Salamander

“I’ll bet you that the Tardigrades are already there...”

If not they are the perfect candidate to survive there.
The only living organism that can survive in space.


26 posted on 04/23/2016 4:57:22 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: BenLurkin
Good topic. I have read that colonies will die out if they cant handle normal radiation from space. That could require below surface habitation.
27 posted on 04/23/2016 5:36:19 AM PDT by Doctor DNA
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To: Fai Mao

A friend of Rodney Dangerfield, he is not.


28 posted on 04/23/2016 7:56:00 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: BenLurkin

Let Matt Damon do it - he has the experience.


29 posted on 04/23/2016 8:48:27 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: BenLurkin

How many of those moons are in the “Goldilocks” zone of sunlight, temperature and gravitational influences?


30 posted on 04/23/2016 9:32:24 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Slambat

They are amazing creatures.


31 posted on 04/23/2016 11:08:38 AM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: Salamander

No doubt about it. ;’)


32 posted on 04/23/2016 11:12:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Tardigrade is the temperature scale for mentally challenged planets.)
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To: SunkenCiv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjV2WP0wkvo

/Tardigrade fan club

;)


33 posted on 04/23/2016 11:17:17 AM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: Salamander

Both the name and the physical appearance are straight out of an old Dr. Who episode.


34 posted on 04/23/2016 11:19:05 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: SunkenCiv

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Giant-Tardigrade-White-Water-Bear-Stuffed-Plush-Squeeze-Doll-30-cm-/321417907429?hash=item4ad6000ce5:g:HSgAAOSwubRXFxLe

Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!


35 posted on 04/23/2016 11:37:29 AM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: RegulatorCountry

LOL!

Gotta be the John Pertwee era.

:D


36 posted on 04/23/2016 11:38:14 AM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: Salamander

They unfortunately infested the Tardis, tiny within, gigantic without after their unfortunate escape, the mindless Tardigrade. Unaware of their newfound scale, terrorising the populace as they stomped about, uttering their bone-chillingly guttural “Meh!”

Played by four guys hunched over in a giant garbage bag, of course.


37 posted on 04/23/2016 1:00:35 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

I would totally watch that!

:D


38 posted on 04/23/2016 1:08:58 PM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: Salamander

Great, now I can’t get that 2004 campaign photo-op of Kerry out of my head.


39 posted on 04/23/2016 2:13:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

and enjoy all that radiation from Jupiter.


40 posted on 04/23/2016 2:44:04 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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