allynh wrote:Thanks for the links.
I'm working on a series of stories about the Burroughs System, with a living Earth, a living Moon, a living Venus, and a living Mars. I now need to rethink how I had the living Mars and then look at the other worlds for harvesting and turning into living worlds.
My stuff is in reaction to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. The trilogy is a fun read, but complete Fantasy. Everything they use to terraform violates known physical laws, especially EU/Plasma cosmology stuff. It's all Space Cadet stuff. HA!
I need to read the trilogy again, and pull out all my Edgar Rice Burroughs to see what I can play with.
Thanks...
nick c wrote:Furthermore, what good would it do to create an Earth type atmosphere when there would be no magnetic field to cushion it from the scouring effect of the Solar Wind (electric current from the Sun)?
However, the sudden breakdown of the Atmosphere Plant that sustains the planet's waning air supply endangers all life on Barsoom.
Younger Dryas wrote:
It appears that the planet at one point in the not too distant past had Oceans - how would the absence of these come into play?
ja7tdo wrote:Younger Dryas wrote:
It appears that the planet at one point in the not too distant past had Oceans - how would the absence of these come into play?
Mars is still a young star and has never had a sea. A close look at the surface of Mars shows that it is expanding. Carbon dioxide and water are generated as it expands. On the earth, as the expansion progresses, a large amount of water is produced and turned to the sea. Mars has not expanded much yet.
The planet that is currently closest to Earth is Venus. Venus is still expanding, and when it is twice the diameter of the present, it will be calculated to be 1 atm. A lot of water will appear when the temperature drops.
Younger Dryas wrote:
I'm guessing you're a big proponent for Expanding Earth, you may very well be correct in describing the conditions for an ocean's creation. I'm unable to find anything else remotely accurate regarding your post.
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