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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Hi! Mind if I butt in? Regarding terraforming of the Moon: the level of difficulty of giving the Moon an athmosphere that could maintain bodies of liquid water is, well, incredibly high. Thus, I'd prefer to think that "Lake Armstrong" as mentioned by Riker has nothing to do with open water. After all, the Moon has plenty of seas, oceans, bays... By Riker's time, there could be one more basalt formation named Lake Armstrong, perhaps marking the spot where a big nuclear or antimatter warhead or a kinetic- energy projectile hit during the last war. The "lake" of volcanic origin could be one of the most easily discernible things on lunar surface in 2373, and enough to make our satellite look different from the one Cochrane was used to seeing. There might be other such impact marks as well (but there aren't any parklands or bodies of water visible when we see the Moon in, say, STV). And as far as colonizing Mars is concerned: perhaps humans visited Mars before WWIII and found it uninteresting to the extreme. No colonies were established before the war. And when warp drive opened the skies for human exploration, nothing could have interested the explorers less than a nearby rathole that wasn't even class M. Using warpships, humans could probably locate planets which could be colonized simply by sending over a bunch of people no better equipped than the settlers of the American west - but settling Mars would have required constant supply flights for such simple things as water or nitrogen! The availability of class M planets would explain why humans neither need nor seem to be eager to terraform non-earthlike planets. The desire to protect native life would be secondary, since life is so abundant in the Trek galaxy that it has little intrinsic value. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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