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Also, I didn't realize that Venus' lack of magnetism was due to its lack of spin - I guess I figured there was just no solid core or something. Is it established that lack of spin is the problem?
Again, I feel kinda silly posting among people who understand these things better than I, but I'm very interested in the idea of terraforming Venus as opposed to Mars.
This suggestion may be totally stupid, but if you could distribute an alkaline through the clouds, wouldn't the sulfuric acid separate out into water & salt. This isn't a solution to the temp or pressure, but a way to get rid of the high sulfur in the atmosphere.
Also, couldn't rain potentially form in places and absorb CO2 as it falls - I mean most of Earth's CO2 is trapped in our oceans.
Hello. I'm new to this forum. I am not a scientist.
It seems that many of the solutions proposed for terraforming Venus are extraordinarily complex, difficult, and expensive.
Also, everyone seems to have in mind COMPLETE terraforming, to make human habitation possible.
Just wondering if it would be possible to concentrate on a small area at the pole of Venus and to try to bombard it with enough water (by directing/redirecting comets) that we could simply create a puddle of liquid water, under great pressure.
It seems to me that a puddle is all that is needed.
If the temperature in a small area were lowered enough to allow just a small amount of liquid water, it could easily be seeded with bacteria from Earth's hydrothermal vents (black smokers). These bacteria are already chemosynthetic, already tolerant of tremendous sulfur content, and already tolerant of massive temperatures and pressures.
Why try a TOTAL terraforming right of the bat? Why not just try to make a small area capable of harboring life - the most extremophile life on Earth. With slightly lower temperatures, it seems like the bacteria that thrive on hydrothermal vents are practically custom-made to live on Venus.
Get a small colony of bacterial life to thrive in a small area at the poles of Venus and stand back & let life work its magic on the atmosphere.
Just a suggestion from a neophyte.
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