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#1 2007-04-02 20:19:15

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Re: How would you terraform earth?

Earth seems like the best sandbox we have right now for finetuning a planet.  Maybe it won't be applicable for anything in the near future, but it could give ideas of what to try or not to try in the future to get things from being decent to being just right.  State what you ideal climate and ecology would be for the area you're trying to change and how you'd accomplish it.

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#2 2007-04-03 05:33:07

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Re: How would you terraform earth?

In "Terraforming: Engineering Planetary Environments" by Martyn J. Fogg he has a chapter that talks about this.  One suggestion was to take two high peaks and put a series of mirrors on them that would reflect a powerful laser beam back and forth between the mountains.  (See page 166.)

This laser would be tuned to break up chlorofluorocarbons.  As months go by, these trace substances are eliminated from our air.  (This reduces greenhouse gasses and substances that destroy the ozone layer.)

We have to make sure aircraft, people and birds and animals don't go into the beams or they will be fried.

Anyway it was an interesting idea and the only way I've seen suggested on how to speed the break up of these substances.  If you don't have fission or fusion, you have to watch the atmospheric pollutants that you create to power these megalasers.

Warm regards, Rick.

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