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'Terra-forming'.. (Or: 'Better Living Through Breathing an Oxygen/Nitrogen Mixture')
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [QB] Continuing from the Transporter thread, on terraforming. By the time of the 23rd century, Terraforming a planet was difficult, judging by the amazingness of the Genesis-idea. By the 24th, 'Home Soil' revealed that Terraformers might spend their whole lives working on one world, and were considered to be a little fruity or at least in their choice of profession. It makes sense that it would take several generations to get a planet to be breathable.. you would first need to introduce bacteria (much is written about not using a planet with life already, because it would be wrong to wipe its evolution out see: ST:II 'there cant be one microbe or the shows off' and Shatner's (and the Reeves' ;-) 'Avenger') The bacteria would either produce oxygen or lead up to a bacteria that produces oxygen (or CO2 if you were introducing plants i guess) .. you would first have to make water tables (like they were doing in home soil).. it might be a long time until you had dug enough for water and made enough gases to support macroscopic life. Would you have to make an ozone layer? to keep in your greenhouse gases? you would have to let several generations (season?) of plants go by until you were getting soil.. and how would the atmosphere be doing? could life gases be introduced mechanically?.. its a pretty large scale to beam in tanks or something. would your temperature be evening out? it was probably cold when you started and warmed up with the introduction of the ozone layer. They might not have had time to do all this on mars, even with being there 200 years (since 21something: Kim, '37s') possibly mars has limited agriculture.. in special areas that have been more terraformed than the red we've seen. Keep in mind that even portions of earth remain unlivable (deserts, mountains, ice caps), like martian deserts. Its possible they have big green areas that still dont show up as much from orbit and are semi-artifically supported, but there remains much of the deserts. But do they have weather? possibly all the heat created for their homes and oxygen released by their planets and co2 released by their living there hasnt caused too much greenhouse, and there isnt a lot of moisture for clouds. Maybe the terraformed areas of mars are still in pressure domes [/QB][/QUOTE]
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