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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7315049" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>To terraform all the planets requires about three stars, and building shells around the gas giants so they have surfaces to terraform. Basically I made Mercury a moon of Venus, Neptune became a Moon of Jupiter, and Uranus became a Moon of Saturn, this puts all the planets within the life zones of various stars. The stars I used were our Sun, Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and for extra credit I terraformed the new extrasolar planet recently found to be orbiting Proxima Centauri, known as Alpha Centauri b and named it Minerva. Our inner Solar System was transferred to Alpha Centauri A, as that is a star just like our Sun only brighter, so thus has a wider lifezone that I can fit Venus, Earth, and Mars comfortably into while preserving their spacing from each other. Since Mercury is a Moon of Venus, that also is terraformed, and I terraformed the Earth's Moon as well.</p><p></p><p>The problem is there are some well-developed ideas for Venus and Mars through legends of antiquity, there is not the same for the other planets. The Solar System has to be completely rearranged and planets moved to different orbits around different stars to make this work.</p><p></p><p>Going back to just Venus and Mars requires less suspension of disbelief. Venus can stay in its orbit, it has 100% cloud cover now, and about as much light reaches Venus' surface as reaches the Earth's surface on a cloudy day. Most of the light gets reflected back into space by the cloud tops. The problem is, Venus has to be very hot to have such a cloud cover naturally.</p><p></p><p>To terraform Venus, we need to substitute water clouds for sulfuric acid clouds. The water clouds are just like over Earth, only some supernatural power has to arrange those clouds to completely surround Venus all the time, to reflect most of the light back into space, so the planet's surface does not absorb that light and reradiate it as heat which gets trapped in the atmosphere turning it into a super hothouse that it is now. I think water clouds are a great way to protect Venus from too much light, just got to prevent those clouds from parting, every day is overcast with clouds everywhere except on the summits of the highest mountains. Aphrodite has been turned into a weather goddess to accomplish this task, and since her lifeforce is bound up with the life of the planet, this is a form of self-preservation for her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7315049, member: 6925649"] To terraform all the planets requires about three stars, and building shells around the gas giants so they have surfaces to terraform. Basically I made Mercury a moon of Venus, Neptune became a Moon of Jupiter, and Uranus became a Moon of Saturn, this puts all the planets within the life zones of various stars. The stars I used were our Sun, Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and for extra credit I terraformed the new extrasolar planet recently found to be orbiting Proxima Centauri, known as Alpha Centauri b and named it Minerva. Our inner Solar System was transferred to Alpha Centauri A, as that is a star just like our Sun only brighter, so thus has a wider lifezone that I can fit Venus, Earth, and Mars comfortably into while preserving their spacing from each other. Since Mercury is a Moon of Venus, that also is terraformed, and I terraformed the Earth's Moon as well. The problem is there are some well-developed ideas for Venus and Mars through legends of antiquity, there is not the same for the other planets. The Solar System has to be completely rearranged and planets moved to different orbits around different stars to make this work. Going back to just Venus and Mars requires less suspension of disbelief. Venus can stay in its orbit, it has 100% cloud cover now, and about as much light reaches Venus' surface as reaches the Earth's surface on a cloudy day. Most of the light gets reflected back into space by the cloud tops. The problem is, Venus has to be very hot to have such a cloud cover naturally. To terraform Venus, we need to substitute water clouds for sulfuric acid clouds. The water clouds are just like over Earth, only some supernatural power has to arrange those clouds to completely surround Venus all the time, to reflect most of the light back into space, so the planet's surface does not absorb that light and reradiate it as heat which gets trapped in the atmosphere turning it into a super hothouse that it is now. I think water clouds are a great way to protect Venus from too much light, just got to prevent those clouds from parting, every day is overcast with clouds everywhere except on the summits of the highest mountains. Aphrodite has been turned into a weather goddess to accomplish this task, and since her lifeforce is bound up with the life of the planet, this is a form of self-preservation for her. [/QUOTE]
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