Terraforming Mars!

[Angel Tarragon]

No, Io is the one with all the volcanos.

Whoops!

 

[Umbran]

Hey! It's the first time I heard about this! Until now I have been always convinced that DNA had been the basis of life since the beginning. Do you have a link of a website where I could learn more about this? Thanks.

Not right on hand. But I'll spend a little time tomorrow digging to find you some.

It makes sense, though - no system as compicated as DNA coding would leap fully formed from the forehead of the primordial soup.

I think Wulf might be referring to the scientific theory that planets in our solar system, and quite possibly different solar systems, are not as separate as we might think.

Perhaps. And I've heard the theory. However, that still doesn't say that there won't be anything interesting to study. Because while the chemical precursors may be common, there's nothing dictating exactly how they're used.

Heck, even if we stipulate that Earth and Mars shared a eukaryotic cell or two, that still leaves huge space for differentiation. Go look back at what kinds of life were around before the first known mass extinction. Some of that stuff was weird, like no body structures still existant.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Like the age of the supersnails. Freaky creature they were!

 

[Mark]

Some of that stuff was weird, like no body structures still existant.

That excuse might get you a day home from work, Mister Noodle Dance, but it won't get you out of service to your planet when we fire up our nuclear-steam hybrid engines and power off to plant the world flag on the Martian landscape!

 

[Angel Tarragon]

We will fire back with our Stellar Converter ffrom our Doom Star that has been orbiting your planet, instantly scattering martian life and your pathetic rock all over the solar system! Hmmm, Maybe I have been playing a little too much Master Of Orion II lately.

 

[tarchon]

Hey! It's the first time I heard about this! Until now I have been always convinced that DNA had been the basis of life since the beginning. Do you have a link of a website where I could learn more about this? Thanks.

Nucleic acids and proteins have a very chicken-and-egg relationship, but there are a lot of possibilities as to how they originally got together.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

On Venus, the extremely thick CO2 atmosphere is so hot, that it could melt lead (if I remember well), in addition of being highly corrosive.

Those here familiar with Planescape know that the planes, both inner and outer, particularly the lower planes, have some frightfully inhospitable locales, but I don't think I've read any game supplement that details any place that rivals Venus. And with good reason: it's broken for game use. 900 degrees fahrenheit on the night side, and high-pressure super-corrosive gas on a wind-blasted, mountainous terrain without visibilty beyound the character's own space on the battlemat.

Who needs monsters when the environment is this bad, and moreover, who wants to fight anything that calls a place like that home?

 

[Turanil]

[Venus] it's broken for game use. 900 degrees fahrenheit on the night side, and high-pressure super-corrosive gas on a wind-blasted, mountainous terrain without visibilty beyound the character's own space on the battlemat.

One may wonder why they named this planet after the Roman goddess of Love... Maybe because Venus was a "femme fatale"?


(i.e.: "femme fatale" being French words meaning "lethal woman")

 

[Angel Tarragon]

One may wonder why they named this planet after the Roman goddess of Love... Maybe because Venus was a "femme fatale"?


(i.e.: "femme fatale" being French words meaning "lethal woman")

That actually makes sense!

 

[Umbran]

That excuse might get you a day home from work, Mister Noodle Dance, but it won't get you out of service to your planet when we fire up our nuclear-steam hybrid engines and power off to plant the world flag on the Martian landscape!

Of course not. You're going to need someone along who actually thinks along to save your butts from the Stellar Converter and all the other dangers that you Kaptain Kirks can't be bothered to use your brains about beforehand

And who needs a nuclear-steam hybrid? You wanna get there fast, use an Orion ship. Take a habitation module, slap some really big shock absorbers on it, and put it on a massive steel plate. Toss a series of nuclear bombs out the back, and ride that shockwave to Martian shores like a surfer on the Great Cosmic Wave!