A Sec Earth in Our Solar Scheme
This post deals mainly with:
- earth
BY GARRISON James Byron Dean AT 02/18/08 04:42 PM
I’m jammed, lets go.
BY CODYDOG AT 02/18/08 04:47 PM
Be easygoing to heat up it than to locomote it.. And talking of that, where is my Unification Torch Transport?.. I set my order in 1957, still holding back.
BY TIM Falkner AT 02/18/08 04:55 PM
Is not this like expression Venus is Earth-like demur for the carbon dioxide, sulfuric acid, and impenetrable atmospherical pressure level?
BY CODYDOG AT 02/18/08 05:13 PM
Hey, a small Moon, a tap of sun block, and who cognises?
Here’s an exercise; Compute the economic value of an earthlike major planet, show twenty existent acres value. Today figure how a lot you could pass on capital disbursement to own such an point.
Understand any perimeter for profit there?
BY BILLSTEWART AT 02/18/08 05:17 PM
Rock yes, sand perchance, but dirt no. Dirt’s pretty complex constitutional material, and needs living or something like it to get. It’s not clear that we cognize enough about how it industrial plant to do something easy like terraforming Mars (we sure have not forecast extinct how to terraform Earth til now, and we’ll need to do that earlier we move anyplace else off-planet.) That makes not mean we ca not turn plants there hydroponically if the appropriate minerals are about, so we could get started out, and it’s sure enough worth draw up one of these thing to your laggard hitch and trucking down here to heater weather, but that makes not mean it’ll be inhabitable any time before long.
BY PEGRITZ AT 02/18/08 05:58 PM
Robert Reed plowed with existences simply like this in his 1992 novel The Remarkables. It was a genuinely absorbing delineation of an modern, but not overly innovative, Human civilisation tardily spreading out into the local mass of champions by placing planets only like these, edifice fusion-powered microsuns in order about them, and then terraforming them.
The Remarkables were an awful alien specie, excessively. They were motile, tumbleweed-like existences as younkers that finally colonised down and turned into shaped “Leslie Richard Groves” whose “root” coupled them unitedly into mammoth biologic nervous webs. I’ve ever cared John Reed would compose a followup to this novel, because it was most sure as shooting one of his best.
BY SAN_Giambattista Marino AT 02/18/08 06:02 PM
Who cares about planets? Let’s get them demolished and start doing work on that matrioshka brain already!
(Although everyone cognises that the massively increased computational powerfulness will only be exploited to escape Creation of Warcraft v.16,905,456.01)
BY ANTIMATTY AT 02/18/08 08:59 PM
worms. we can direct lots and lots of insects to change state rock into dirt or something.
BY YATTA! AT 02/18/08 10:51 PM
Having it away psyched, ca not wait to motor my machine all all over Earth 2 to aid with the warming issue.
BY STEEL_WIND AT 02/18/08 11:20 PM
We would have immensely more succeeder terraforming Red Planet or even Venus than nerve to convey living to a still stone in the Oort cloud.
BY SZIN AT 02/18/08 11:33 PM
“Whoa, slow down pudgy! You’re not on the Moon thus far!”
BY LUMPYDUMPLINGS AT 01:22 AM
Se, they tell they can understand planets umteen 000 000 000 light months away or any, but then something shows up right in their faces and they’re all appalled like “WHAAAAA?” So, if you do not genuinely cognize what’s right here, then how can you state me what’s there..?
BY ANDREWMAC AT 05:41 AM
If and when we evolve the powerfulness to change over the celestial orbit of planets at will, would not it be easygoing to change over the orbits of Mars and Venus than to draw an extra-solar major planet into alliance? Wherefore stop at one novel earth for that thing? How plenty of earths could you much space in an celestial orbit about colloidal suspension?
BY 92BUICKLESABRE AT 05:50 AM
So today we have an excuse to direct all the Hummer-owners into space!
BY LTWASS AT 05:56 AM
The Jan Hendrix Oort cloud is completely hypothetical, never discovered, right? So this is about hypothetical planets in a hypothetical cloud? Color me unexcited.
BY IRISMR AT 06:01 AM
Travelling a major planet inward… Right. We’re not even capable to locomote hypothetical ominous asteroids thus far.
And the Oort cloud is Mode far. By the clip we’re capable to go there the Sun will be raging and our earth will be roast.
BY IRISMR AT 06:03 AM
ltwass: The Jan Hendrix Oort cloud’s still hypothetical but the thought and proofs are pretty hearty.
BY JEFF-MINOR AT 06:07 AM
Excessively lots work for anything but a very innovative civilisation with a post-scarcity order. Use up the Moons of Red Planet and use them first. Occupy a Moon of Jupitor next. Use Hydrargyrum. The Oort cloud is so far away that it could as good be on the otherside of the coltsfoot.
BY IRISMR AT 06:17 AM
Jeff-Minor: …The Moons of mars? they’re simply fascinated asteroids, wherefore bother? O_o
The thought is that these hypothetical oort earths have all the material to back up living. I’m pretty certain that neither Phobos nor Deimos, and far less Hydrargyrum, has anything to do that job.
BY SEEINGI AT 06:34 AM
At least one of them is lived by Cybermen, and some other one has Tim Curry on it. So, you cognize, take sagely.
BY JEFF-MINOR AT 06:38 AM
Orismr, but natural edifice material. Make transports with it.
BY IRISMR AT 06:53 AM
Jeff-Minor: There’s plenty edifice stuffs here truly. Anyhow, if you want an excavation base, bury Hydrargyrum. It’s style excessively inward. Use asteroids, from a base on Mars. Then you can too have a place for your transports. I bet Mars is waxed of topographic points to turn over as good. I’m not certain Phobos and Deimos are very fertile (largely rock and ice) so bury them. The Moons of Jupiter are possibly a full thought, if you like being about that goliath. I cognise I do not rather feel like it.
BY STEVEN522 AT 06:54 AM
Outstanding. That’s all we need. “Pull a fresh major planet in from the Jan Hendrix Oort cloud, what could go incorrect?”
Next matter you cognise we are spawning winging fire-breathing firedrakes in a despairing endeavour to stand off thread.
BY ICHABODCRANE AT 07:43 AM
Wherefore travel to the Jan Hendrix Oort Cloud to happen an Earth type major planet when all you need do is “Journey to the Far Face of the Sun”?
BY POUNCER AT 09:36 AM
Was not it 2010 where Jupiter acquired off into a sun and Europa or Io or something off into some other Globe? Lets start that merger chemical reaction!
BY KLEBERT AT 09:57 AM
LumpyDumplings
Because the remote extrasolar planets are close enough to asterisk to be lit by them, so they’re seeable.
Jan Hendrix Oort objects are in a genuinely, truly, dark place.
-Kle.
BY IRISMR AT 01:11 PM
Klebert: I idea we for the most part detected them thanks to the star’s wobble or any?
BY RUBIXIMUS AT 02:51 PM
I would simply get one extinct of composition mache.
Are you musing what I’m broody?
BY ANTHION AT 03:16 PM
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BY Gossamer AT 04:14 PM
What about the fact that when you present some other celestial physical structure into our planetal scheme it personal effects the gravitative orbits of all the circumferent celestial bodies? It would effect the orbits of the early planets in the green belt, and that’s if you could someways subdue the gravitative pulling of its existent celestial orbit as it links up to the celestial bodies circumferent it already.
It would be easygoing centering on determination planets that already subsist in greenways about their own stars in nearby solar systems.
BY Gossamer AT 04:19 PM
and regretful for the double post but, if we could drag planets, even conceptually, we’d have an instant answer for worldwide warming up…wherefore would we need some other major planet in any case?
BY ANTIPAGANDA AT 04:25 PM
cobweb: It could be leisurely to chance planets in early solar systems that are close to their star, but it will ever be easygoing to Locomote to the Jan Hendrix Oort cloud. Blackball hyperdrive. The Jan Hendrix Oort cloud is, at most, only one light twelvemonth away. Former star systems start at 4 and go up.
Likewise, yield the planetal technologists of the future some recognition, eh? We can do the computings Today that would permit us to pose fresh Earths in unchanging orbits.
BY Gossamer AT 04:29 PM
Yes, planetal tractor beams would be inspiring /hope
BY BROCK AT 04:35 PM
We still do not even cognise if human race can live on (tenacious condition) and procreate in anything early than just 1 g. If these Oort-worlds are extinct there it looks the best use we can position them to is mining them for the natural stuffs to get permanent space home grounds. And even then we’d only use something planet-sized one time we’d upon up every asteroid and comet. Acquiring 50 000 000 gobs of stone and steel extinct of an Earth-sized gravitational attraction good is not easy.
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AT 02/19/08 11:02 PM