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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7314390" data-attributes="member: 6925649">Venus is Earth's twin, the only thing wrong with it is that its too close to the Sun and it spins too slowly, everything else is a result of those two facts, the greenhouse effect, its lack of oceans, its lack of a magnetic field, off all the planets in the Solar System, only Venus has a mass that approaches Earth, it has 0.9 times Earth's gravity, which means in D20 terms, you can pretty much ignore the gravity. I think Venus in the future might be a habitable planet, if we spin it up, it will have a magnetic field, if we shade it, its sulfuric acid clouds will rain out and be absorbed by the ground, We can react hydrogen imported from the outer solar system, with its mostly carbon-dioxide atmosphere to produce water and limestone.<img src="https://storiesbywilliams.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/venus_terraformed.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Venus can one day be a lovely planet, fully deserving of its name, but before we terraform it in actuality, we can first terraform it in simulation. With a sophisticated enough simulation, we could make it seem indistinguishable from the real thing if we model the physics right. On the other side of the coin, what if we're living in a simulation right now? Imagine a multiverse of simulated worlds, one where magic works. Imagine another simulation where magic doesn't work, only pure physics laws are simulated, and oh by the way, it appears we are alone in the Universe within this simulation, it could explain the Fermi Paradox. The reason we can't detect extraterrestrial civilizations is because this simulation was built specifically for us, and so it has gone on for thousands of years. Our astronomers searched the heavens for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence and found nothing, and wondered why there was nothing. Was it because we aren't looking hard enough? Was it because all civilizations when they reach a certain level of advancement wipe themselves out. Or is the Universe we experience only a simulation created by something else, lets say a vast computer existing somewhere in the real universe that we know nothing about? What if their are other simulated universes, running side by side in parallel to our own. Universes with different laws, some with magic, and what if someone hacked into our universe and created a breach into another universe? Maybe a wizard of a god from the other universe created this breach into our own.<img src="http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2400000/Aphrodite-greek-mythology-2470559-593-873.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />This is the goddess responsible for the breech, an avatar of the goddess anyway, the goddess herself is the living planet, she keeps the planet living, maintains the cloud cover to shield the planet's surface from the Sun, she is a lot of things, there are at least three other gods in this universe, Gaia, Apollo, and Ares, that makes two women and two men.  Aphrodite is chaotic good and Ares is chaotic evil, these are functions of their portfolios. Gaia is a neutral goddess of nature. Apollo is a Sun god, he sees everything, and offers prophesies sometimes. Gaia is sometimes cruel and harsh, Aphrodite has a soft spot for mankind. Ares appreciates mankind as well, he likes to see men fight! There are other gods and goddesses who don't have planets, but these four are the major ones.</blockquote>

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