What would be the best way to terraform Venus? Would it be possible to somehow dump most of the atmosphere into space?
Terraforming Venus
Isaiah Cox
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Joshua Murphy
Yes that would be possible in the future, given enough energy to sustain a space fountain.
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Why just dump it into space though, you could ship it to mars with slow light sail drone ships and solve the issue of Nitrogen lack on Mars.
Cameron Stewart
No need to dump atmosphere , make it work to your favor . 30 to 40 miles above the ground the atmosphere is almost identical to earth .
Oliver Torres
Is there even a practical way to remove a planet's atmosphere without massive structure damage?
That's a lot of mass there.
Gavin Jackson
bombard it with comets and seed it with airborne cyanobacteria
The comets would increase the water content of the atmosphere, helping the cyanobacteria to live and creating white clouds above the sulfur cloud layer and increasing venus' albedo
the cyanobacteria meanwhile would metabolize the greenhouse gases and replace them with O2
Henry Anderson
>implying that bombarding it with comets would supply enough hydrogen A̲N̲D̲ cool it down enough for the products of the bacteria to not just be converted back into CO2
Oliver Price
I'm talking about an ongoing project of probably tens of thousands of years, growing cyanobacteria in orbital farms and releasing it in to the atmosphere constantly, and constantly bombarding it with comets.
Nobody said terraforming is easy
Gabriel Turner
bombard it with a huge fucking asteroid that blows almost all the surface away
wait a couple of hundred years for venus to cool down (you can put a giant sunscreen between the sun and venus to accelerate the proces), after temperature is acceptable, remove sunscreen gently
do what said basically but also with other genetically ingeneered bacteria that can metabolize and bind Sulfur, filtering it out of the atmosphere
wait a while
enjoy venus
or you could fly several huge asteroids (really fucking huge) very close by and let their gravity drain venus' atmosphere
or you could live in sky cities, floating in the thick atmosphere
David Butler
>venus has too much atmosphere, needs less
>mars has too little, needs more
we should let mars fly by venus and drain it of its atmosphere
just takes a coulple of millenia and incredible amounts of energy, no biggy
Justin Edwards
Pffft! You only have to give it a magnetic field, make it spin faster, siphon off some of its atmosphere, and introduce a shitton of hydrogen and nitrogen into its atmosphere! No biggie. It would be a snap to terraform! It's practically earth-like already!