Wouldn’t it be easier to just… live in zeppelins, or other aircraft, rather than constructing a massive glass shell? Treat the planet like a gas giant (gas dwarf?). You can always dodge a too-thick atmosphere, and once you’re at a good atmospheric pressure, you’ve reduced the threats down to just dealing with an atmospheric composition which despises all life with a burning, undying passion that would make AM proud.
Proposal: After you’ve established an artificial magnetic field on Mars, import the Martian atmosphere from Venus.
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aah31415
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That would only reduce the Venusian atmosphere by single digit percents, albeit if you use venus constantly to renew the atmosphere of mars, perhaps you could eventually get it down to “acceptable” levels.
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You’d have to do something utterly drastic to get around the acid rain even in the comfy clouds. Plus the CO2 concentration would be high enough it probably wouldn’t be breathable, even if some cyanobacteria did their thing. You could stay in blimps, but that defeats the point of living on a planet. Why hole yourself up in a gravity well if you don’t even get to go outside? Just build a big spinny base in space where leaving and arriving are much easier.
Not that much, not around a star like Larry Niven. A Bishop ring is much saner, and a normal O’Neill cylinder works perfectly fine for most use cases.
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By a “ring-world” I didn’t mean the ones going all the way around a star, I meant the small ones.
What is a “bishop ring” btw?
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Deathwake
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basically a continent sized ring habitat. The various sizes and locations you can put a ring habitat all have names. It’s a bit silly but I like being unambiguous and sounding smart.
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Are these habitats named after chess pieces?
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Deathwake
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Nope. Usually random science-y people. No clue who Forest Bishop was but apparently he proposed the idea.
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Also another thing: How would these proposed floating bases on venus get resources to repair themselves and grow? I don’t think returning from the surface would wield much success, and there neither are many asteroids in that region. Seems like they would have to rely on supplies from Earth.
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Deathwake
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Yeah, great point. It’s really not as long term a plan as terraforming either.
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Also I just noticed, shouldn’t planet and moon terraforming fit under the same category?
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There’s differences, but they aren’t significant. I think this topic should be called terraforming. It’s not like anyone is arguing we should terraform comets or stars, if they were they’d probably make a new thread even if this was just called terraforming. But then again, the name is fine.
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I could see the radiation belts being a problem. They could sterilize entire polar regions of life, with increasingly more area being unsafe the closer a moon is to it’s parent object.