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#26 2003-10-10 10:07:53
- dickbill
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Re: Mercury Terraformation?
Terraforming mercury interests me precisely because it is nearest to sun.
why ?
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#27 2003-10-11 05:12:27
- alokmohan
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Re: Mercury Terraformation?
tHE ONLY ONE OF ITS TYPE.tHERE WILL BE TWO SUNRISES PROBABLY.iT WILL BE NICE TOURING PLACE.
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#28 2003-10-11 08:50:59
- ~Eternal~
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Re: Mercury Terraformation?
Terraforming mercury interests me precisely because it is nearest to sun.
why ?
Do you realize how much O3 would be need for it 8).
The skys would be filled with a purple haze and a magnificent brillant Star taking up most of the sky.
The MiniTruth passed its first act #001, comname: PATRIOT ACT on October 26, 2001.
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#29 2003-10-12 04:48:02
- alokmohan
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Re: Mercury Terraformation?
But for tourists wont it be nice?I long to go.
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#30 2003-10-12 07:40:41
- dicktice
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Re: Mercury Terraformation?
Regarding Mercury: My single suggestion for making it habitable, on the surface away from the Sun, would be to slow its rotation to match its orbital period. This should be possible since it's nearly that now, with a tendency towards synchronism already in force--it just needs a little help to "lock-in" for our purposes sooner. (The best way to do this is left as a "student exercise.") Domed surface colonies, shielded from the Sun, should then not only be feasible, but practical places to live, work and transport metals and minerals from, returning with tourists via Solar sailing ships galore! employed in continuous Mercury-Earth, Mercury-Venus and Mercury-Mars orbital commerce.
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#31 2003-10-12 07:55:28
- Shaun Barrett
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Re: Mercury Terraformation?
Makes as much sense as anything else I've read about terraforming Mercury!
:;):
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#32 2003-10-12 10:24:41
- Byron
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Re: Mercury Terraformation?
Makes as much sense as anything else I've read about terraforming Mercury!
:;):
I agree! 
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#33 2003-10-13 04:49:29
- alokmohan
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Re: Mercury Terraformation?
Regarding Mercury: My single suggestion for making it habitable, on the surface away from the Sun, would be to slow its rotation to match its orbital period. This should be possible since it's nearly that now, with a tendency towards synchronism already in force--it just needs a little help to "lock-in" for our purposes sooner. (The best way to do this is left as a "student exercise.") Domed surface colonies, shielded from the Sun, should then not only be feasible, but practical places to live, work and transport metals and minerals from, returning with tourists via Solar sailing ships galore! employed in continuous Mercury-Earth, Mercury-Venus and Mercury-Mars orbital commerce.
We may think of it seriously.
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