well in Future foundation #1 mister fantastic told his kids and the rest of the foundation that he was gonna terraform the moon.....but his father, nathaniel, said it was a stupid idea....and in this video.....i think its him terraforming the moon behind his father's back
As mentioned before, why not make a big bubble around the moon? It seems like it would be possible given some time and a self replicating plastic making robot sent up there to mine the materials.
using the "worldhouse" Concept of creating a protective transparent dome which covers the entire moon, made out of perhaps a self healing hydrocarbon polymer, carbon nanotubes or some other material might be considered "para-terraform" but that's alot more sustainable then simply giving the moon a habitable atmosphere then just not giving it a protective "bubble" world house. moon loose it's atmosphere is because during solar flares or CMEs, highly charged partials strip away it's atmosphere.
This "world house" bubble concept will allow the ecosystems to survive and the atmosphere to be safe from highly charged particals which get blasted from the Sun. On the surface it will feel and seem about exactly like as if it were terraformed, the dome would be very transparent, and cause it would also cover the entire moon. You would also be able to keep the benefits of a thick atmosphere. The entire worldhouse roof has a mild electromagnetic field that helps in radiation protection
maintenir une atmosphere sur la lune est impossible à cause de la trop faible gravite...pour que ce soit realisable, il faudrait maintenir la lune (sauf peut-être les pôles ) dans une totale obscurite ...mais quelle temperature glaciale y
régnerait !!
A certains endroits il pourrait y avoir des villes sous cloches.
@gurra1351 You guys should really check out "Paraterraforming" ;) Terraforming would be good for larger worlds like mars, but as for moon and anything smaller paraterraforming might be the solution.
@OldCarsAreBest If you can use pollution machines, like gas gussling cars on a huge scale, it will create CO2. After that, put REALLY hardy oxygen producing plants, turning the CO2 into oxygen. Trees can then be added, so can a sufficient amount of water vapor from possible nuclear plants on the Moon, and the water vapor will cool, falling as rain, giving the moon a good atmosphere.
@Kevinyock It said on a video that it had to be at least 1/3 the size of the Earth to keep it's atmosphere. I think if we mine massive plates from Mars and put them around the moon, like a 'Dyson Sphere', keeping in the atmosphere, or fission could split oxygen atoms from its parent molecules. Oxygen atoms are abundant on the moon.
Problem is moon won't be able to hold onto its fucking atmosphere ;( .
It doesn't have a magnetic field to protect it from solar flares which could very easily accelerate the partials of the upper atmosphere past the escape velocity of the moons weak gravity.
It is debatable that Mars may have lost so much of its atmosphere due to lack of a strong magnetic field thus solar flares blow most of it away, or a series of massive collisions with 150 mile wide asteroids.
@skateerboy12 First of all, there is but it's very very thin. Secondly, the idea of terraforming is to create a habitable atmosphere. Third, it's not the lack of atmosphere on the moon that is the big issue, but rather the small size of the moon, making it impossible for a habitable atmosphere to stick. The air molecules simply moves at a speed that is higher than the moons escape velocity. Also there is no magnetosphere, that is a problem as well.
If you mess with the moon it will throw of earths tides you terraform mars and venis but more material on the moon to the point of an atmasphere and ocean would incress it's gravity enough to cause tsunimes
@dillidar6 um, use punctuation, please. I could barely understand your statement. Oh and to refute your arguement: The moon's size and gravitational force causes tides and etc..., in my opinion, I don't think life and an atmosphere would disrupt the size and force of the moon/
terragorming the moon is phsyically impossible there is no gasses like hydrogen in it.. so too bad it'll never be done. :( what an engenius idea that never occured to me though.. terraforming the moon.. WOW. again too bad it's impossible. :(
the reason this is pointless is cause the sun will and is getting hotter as time grows.. It would suck to terraform it and then have to terra form a planet farther out like mars..
@HeartStrikerz Yeah thats not going to happen for a long time, but what the main argument is that human population is getting very high and areas to grow food gets less and less we will need other places to expand into the Solar system. But what i want to know If anyone could tell me is how would the seas act if planets got terraformed for example Mars because it has 2 moons or even our moon? thanks
@Jamesmegarity I was wondering the same thing about mars, with the moon i think it's tides will be more extreme as the earths gravity is 6 times that of the moon, also takes a month for the moon to rotate so that's a very long day haha.
@MatthewJensRobinson Yeah that would be a huge problem because things would just die, plants would not be able to grow and if animals were to be brought there, they wouldn't know what to do haha.
@rob741258 Well, there is no algae or bacteria. No algae because there is no liquid water, we would have to introduce algae if we wanted it. There is probably no bacteria as it is extremely unlikely the same group of life would evolve twice. Living in underground caves, though, there may be something similar to Archea.
@BudCharles999 no liquid water yet found? Apart from the H2O ice crystals the rover uncovered which then melted in the sun? Life forms could live inside of ice or other matter for a long time, even reproduce inside ice if it's not hibernating or in spore form. Some life forms can even melt an area around them in which to live. And NO bacterial or other forms life exist?
@rob741258 Not as far as we know. If they do they probably won't affect Earth life because they will not use DNA, unless they are somehow related to Earth life.... (e.g. they were transported to/from Earth by meteor.)
@BudCharles999 Sorry but i think your wrong. I beleve that every speciec has to use some code to pass on in order to be able to adapt and survive. Wheter its the same molecular structure as DNA is not certain. But the fact is that it would most likely be able affect us. And also Its impossible to put an atmosphere on mars because it doesnt have the garavitation to hold it. It would just dissipate into space.
@ilusjon Actually it was the solar wind that lost Mars' atmosphere. Saturn's moon Titan is so far from the sun it has a massive atmosphere. And I don't know very much about bacteria affects so talk to a scientist about bacteria on Mars and its impact on us.
@BudCharles999 Even life which may have indefinite hibernation potential? In the words of Geoff Goldbloom "Life will find a way". To say with out ANY DOUBT that there is aboslutely no algae or bacteria (or any life) on Mars (or any throughly unexplored area) is unscientific and silly.
@Jamesmegarity Why does humanity "need" to expand? Is it a problem if humanity stays on Earth and dies out? Do you think humanity (considering how they're so amazingly good at destroying entire planetary eco-systems) deserve the opportunity of expansion into other life-supporting worlds? If an intelligent group of beings on another world saw Humans landing on their precious soils, they would surely not be impressed and put eradication measures into play immediately if they knew our history.
And "SniperViper1000" you are currently part of the process which is very literally eradicating me, and millions upon millions of other life forms.
There is a huge difference between being a pessimist and a realist. Regardless of it's it's to a "motherfucking" degree or not.
My previous comments above are to encourage broader thinking. I'm glad your thinking includes such passionate and intelligent words. I trust you'll prosper.
@rob741258 Well they aren't life supporting so no other life form would be able to complain and to be honest what other life form would complain. There isn't any in our solar system so not our problem I say. And we have a need to expand so people don't live in squalor, and we will become a better peoples from it, a fresh start.
@Jamesmegarity It will not be them who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very much like them. But with more of their strengths and fewer of their weaknesses.
The only humans in all the universe came from Earth. How vulnerable they were. How perilous their infancy. How humble their beginnings.
How many rivers they had to cross before they found their way.
Go to the highest spot on the Moon (it's at 5.41°S - 201.37°). Build a tower 1 Km tall (easy in the low gravity). Build another ever 100 Km (some will be nearly 20 Km tall). Now roof the whole Moon over with a geodesic globe. Install three-metre thick panes of glass or sapphire. Fill with air, water, plants, animals, people. Enjoy.
Now you're shielded from radiation, and your atmosphere won't float away. Most of the time the roof wouldn't be visible.
@SailorBarsoom mhm, wait one second, let me get about 6 trillion tons of an undiscovered radiation-proof glass, about 500 billion pounds of steel, pump in 1/4 of all the water on Earth, somehow transfer green-house gases into the globe, enjoy!
Now your completely not shielded by a asteroid that could destroy a small part of the dome and get all of the Moon's atmosphere sucked into space!
Any glass is radiation-proof if thick enough. 1/4 of all the Earth's water would bury the entire Moon many Km deep. A bigger problem than greenhouse gasses (less than a tenth of a percent of Earth's atmosphere) is nitrogen (nearly 80%). The Lunar soils have plenty of oxygen. I'm having trouble running down numbers, but I suspect that 500 billion tons would take care of the whole roof, with some left over.
I'd like to modify the design in one way, though: It turns out that you only need twelve towers, not the hundreds I was planning. I think the bulk of the building material would be sapphire. It has wonderful physical properties, and the Lunar soils contain huge amounts of the two elements it is made from: aluminum and oxygen.
The biggest import is likely to be nitrogen, and the 2% of Earth's water is a close second. BTW, it doesn't have to come from Earth.
@BlackRaptor31 If we change something like the size of the moon it could be catastrophic. If you don't move the moon it would collide with the Earth. And if you didn't, we would have no moon and stuff like tsunamis would be a LOT more frequent, Earth would die either way.
@SpadesNeil it might be done in the future with future technologie ... the might be a gravity machine in the far future .. hwo knows ... everything is possable ... we just need science to go on and stop war ..
@SpadesNeil There are moons of the outer planets smaller than earth, with thicker atmosphere's than earth so, not necessarily. the biggest problem is really the lack of a strong magnetic field to block radiation.
@krazykhrisya You're also talking about highly volcanic worlds that are not only constantly pumping out hot gasses, they also have a core to generate the magnetic field. Other examples include Titan which is actually larger than our moon, but its surface is absolutely covered in H2O ice. (Even if water is frozen it can still evaporate if I'm not mistaken.) Magnetic fields are less issue being so far from the sun however.
Unfortunately our moon does not have anything to generate that atmosphere.
@SpadesNeil Fair point. :P the only thing is, say we were to try and terraform titan, it's a prime candidate but not in terms of distance, wouldn't it have to have an atmosphere something in the order of 6 times that of earth's, even given it's smaller size? still, it's awesome to fantasize about, as terraforming is one of the few things right now that's NOT like, yeah its cool but pointless, its more like, we need to start working on it NOW because Earth is running out of room...
the tides of the moon and the tides of earth will make things alot more interesting
animalnt 1 hour ago
well in Future foundation #1 mister fantastic told his kids and the rest of the foundation that he was gonna terraform the moon.....but his father, nathaniel, said it was a stupid idea....and in this video.....i think its him terraforming the moon behind his father's back
TheEgypt13 1 week ago
this should not be terraformed...it's not appplicable.
kerbyespinosa 2 weeks ago
As mentioned before, why not make a big bubble around the moon? It seems like it would be possible given some time and a self replicating plastic making robot sent up there to mine the materials.
79317139 3 weeks ago
@79317139 how do u remember yor username
peapeeman 5 days ago
the moon is useless blow it to smithereens so earth can have rings like saturn lol
screwdriver121212 1 month ago
@screwdriver121212 bad idea
masterdelrap 1 month ago
@screwdriver121212 very bad bad idea... the moon is really usefull.
DevasionX 4 weeks ago
The moon can't be terraformed. It would need to be caeliformed. Big difference.
TwinAgateDragons 1 month ago 3
Would the sun really look that much smaller than the earth from the moon.
The1Skinsfan 2 months ago
what the soundtrack bladerunner.
DAVIDCGosling 2 months ago
would never work without gravity to the moon have water
Regina7047 2 months ago
CREATE A BIG PLASTIC BUBBLE AROUND THE MOON
masterdelrap 3 months ago 8
@masterdelrap dome ALL the moons!!11!!
cornmon 1 month ago
@cornmon we only need one
masterdelrap 1 month ago
@masterdelrap oblivious comment is oblivious...-.-'
cornmon 1 month ago
LOL the image at 0:53 is earth sideways
XAwesomeRockerDudeX 3 months ago
using the "worldhouse" Concept of creating a protective transparent dome which covers the entire moon, made out of perhaps a self healing hydrocarbon polymer, carbon nanotubes or some other material might be considered "para-terraform" but that's alot more sustainable then simply giving the moon a habitable atmosphere then just not giving it a protective "bubble" world house. moon loose it's atmosphere is because during solar flares or CMEs, highly charged partials strip away it's atmosphere.
curingaging00 4 months ago
This "world house" bubble concept will allow the ecosystems to survive and the atmosphere to be safe from highly charged particals which get blasted from the Sun. On the surface it will feel and seem about exactly like as if it were terraformed, the dome would be very transparent, and cause it would also cover the entire moon. You would also be able to keep the benefits of a thick atmosphere. The entire worldhouse roof has a mild electromagnetic field that helps in radiation protection
curingaging00 4 months ago
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curingaging00 4 months ago
maintenir une atmosphere sur la lune est impossible à cause de la trop faible gravite...pour que ce soit realisable, il faudrait maintenir la lune (sauf peut-être les pôles ) dans une totale obscurite ...mais quelle temperature glaciale y
régnerait !!
A certains endroits il pourrait y avoir des villes sous cloches.
eruptionduvesuve 4 months ago
Sadly, the Moon is too tiny.
gurra1351 5 months ago
@gurra1351 You guys should really check out "Paraterraforming" ;) Terraforming would be good for larger worlds like mars, but as for moon and anything smaller paraterraforming might be the solution.
curingaging00 4 months ago
The only way it could work would be to create an artificial atmosphere somehow.
darthroden 5 months ago
How could they terraform the moon? The moon doesn't have an atmosphere!
OldCarsAreBest 5 months ago
@OldCarsAreBest If you can use pollution machines, like gas gussling cars on a huge scale, it will create CO2. After that, put REALLY hardy oxygen producing plants, turning the CO2 into oxygen. Trees can then be added, so can a sufficient amount of water vapor from possible nuclear plants on the Moon, and the water vapor will cool, falling as rain, giving the moon a good atmosphere.
wtfomgstudios 4 months ago
@wtfomgstudios Gravity is needed to hold the atmosphere.
Kevinyock 4 months ago
@Kevinyock It said on a video that it had to be at least 1/3 the size of the Earth to keep it's atmosphere. I think if we mine massive plates from Mars and put them around the moon, like a 'Dyson Sphere', keeping in the atmosphere, or fission could split oxygen atoms from its parent molecules. Oxygen atoms are abundant on the moon.
wtfomgstudios 4 months ago
Problem is moon won't be able to hold onto its fucking atmosphere ;( .
It doesn't have a magnetic field to protect it from solar flares which could very easily accelerate the partials of the upper atmosphere past the escape velocity of the moons weak gravity.
It is debatable that Mars may have lost so much of its atmosphere due to lack of a strong magnetic field thus solar flares blow most of it away, or a series of massive collisions with 150 mile wide asteroids.
SereneiBE 5 months ago
which happened some 4 billion years ago
SereneiBE 5 months ago
Where would you even get air to start it? any gasses at all would float away, or boil away in the 2 week days
woltz9999 5 months ago
that is not possiable there no a
tmosphere on the moon
skateerboy12 6 months ago
@skateerboy12 First of all, there is but it's very very thin. Secondly, the idea of terraforming is to create a habitable atmosphere. Third, it's not the lack of atmosphere on the moon that is the big issue, but rather the small size of the moon, making it impossible for a habitable atmosphere to stick. The air molecules simply moves at a speed that is higher than the moons escape velocity. Also there is no magnetosphere, that is a problem as well.
Tjita1 6 months ago
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DuPuieproductions 7 months ago
If you mess with the moon it will throw of earths tides you terraform mars and venis but more material on the moon to the point of an atmasphere and ocean would incress it's gravity enough to cause tsunimes
dillidar6 7 months ago
@dillidar6 um, use punctuation, please. I could barely understand your statement. Oh and to refute your arguement: The moon's size and gravitational force causes tides and etc..., in my opinion, I don't think life and an atmosphere would disrupt the size and force of the moon/
xCookieDamagex 7 months ago
terragorming the moon is phsyically impossible there is no gasses like hydrogen in it.. so too bad it'll never be done. :( what an engenius idea that never occured to me though.. terraforming the moon.. WOW. again too bad it's impossible. :(
SuperNumber19 8 months ago
whao! it suprizing that we can put a atmospere on the moon
PiterNguyenPhouc 9 months ago
@PiterNguyenPhouc cant
svartsaft 8 months ago
@svartsaft thats the point
PiterNguyenPhouc 7 months ago
the reason this is pointless is cause the sun will and is getting hotter as time grows.. It would suck to terraform it and then have to terra form a planet farther out like mars..
HeartStrikerz 1 year ago
@HeartStrikerz Yeah thats not going to happen for a long time, but what the main argument is that human population is getting very high and areas to grow food gets less and less we will need other places to expand into the Solar system. But what i want to know If anyone could tell me is how would the seas act if planets got terraformed for example Mars because it has 2 moons or even our moon? thanks
Jamesmegarity 11 months ago
@Jamesmegarity I was wondering the same thing about mars, with the moon i think it's tides will be more extreme as the earths gravity is 6 times that of the moon, also takes a month for the moon to rotate so that's a very long day haha.
MatthewJensRobinson 10 months ago
@MatthewJensRobinson Yeah that would be a huge problem because things would just die, plants would not be able to grow and if animals were to be brought there, they wouldn't know what to do haha.
Jamesmegarity 10 months ago
@Jamesmegarity in my personal opinion use the moon as a natural orbiting ship yard and been line to mars lol.
MatthewJensRobinson 10 months ago 23
@MatthewJensRobinson The delta v requirements from the moon to mars are significantly different than a straight shot from earth.
tlages 10 months ago
@MatthewJensRobinson I agree - using copper coil propulsion from moon surface.
rob741258 9 months ago
@Jamesmegarity Its moons are very small and they would have a very, very small tidal effect.
BudCharles999 10 months ago
@BudCharles999 Yeah but then would there be no current would there not be and that would make it uninhabitable would it not?
Jamesmegarity 9 months ago
@Jamesmegarity Not really, because there are no algae or bacteria on Mars!
BudCharles999 9 months ago
@BudCharles999 no algae or bacteria? this has never ever been proven. Your statement is incorrect.
rob741258 9 months ago
@rob741258 Well, there is no algae or bacteria. No algae because there is no liquid water, we would have to introduce algae if we wanted it. There is probably no bacteria as it is extremely unlikely the same group of life would evolve twice. Living in underground caves, though, there may be something similar to Archea.
BudCharles999 9 months ago
@BudCharles999 no liquid water yet found? Apart from the H2O ice crystals the rover uncovered which then melted in the sun? Life forms could live inside of ice or other matter for a long time, even reproduce inside ice if it's not hibernating or in spore form. Some life forms can even melt an area around them in which to live. And NO bacterial or other forms life exist?
rob741258 9 months ago
@rob741258 Not as far as we know. If they do they probably won't affect Earth life because they will not use DNA, unless they are somehow related to Earth life.... (e.g. they were transported to/from Earth by meteor.)
BudCharles999 9 months ago
@BudCharles999 Sorry but i think your wrong. I beleve that every speciec has to use some code to pass on in order to be able to adapt and survive. Wheter its the same molecular structure as DNA is not certain. But the fact is that it would most likely be able affect us. And also Its impossible to put an atmosphere on mars because it doesnt have the garavitation to hold it. It would just dissipate into space.
ilusjon 8 months ago
@ilusjon Actually it was the solar wind that lost Mars' atmosphere. Saturn's moon Titan is so far from the sun it has a massive atmosphere. And I don't know very much about bacteria affects so talk to a scientist about bacteria on Mars and its impact on us.
BudCharles999 8 months ago
@BudCharles999 again, sorry...
ilusjon 8 months ago
@ilusjon ups so sorry guys, i meant the moon.... sry bout that... Mars can be terraformed and would be able to sustain an atmosphere.
ilusjon 8 months ago
@BudCharles999 Even life which may have indefinite hibernation potential? In the words of Geoff Goldbloom "Life will find a way". To say with out ANY DOUBT that there is aboslutely no algae or bacteria (or any life) on Mars (or any throughly unexplored area) is unscientific and silly.
rob741258 9 months ago
@rob741258 Maybe there could be bacteria...
BudCharles999 9 months ago
@Jamesmegarity Why does humanity "need" to expand? Is it a problem if humanity stays on Earth and dies out? Do you think humanity (considering how they're so amazingly good at destroying entire planetary eco-systems) deserve the opportunity of expansion into other life-supporting worlds? If an intelligent group of beings on another world saw Humans landing on their precious soils, they would surely not be impressed and put eradication measures into play immediately if they knew our history.
rob741258 9 months ago
@rob741258 Think before you speak.
The amount we've done more nature is amazing. The amazing we're also donig know is amazing.
You're just a solid motherfucking pessimist. How about we eradicate you!
SniperViper1000 9 months ago
@SniperViper1000 Your sentences don't make too much sense.
And "SniperViper1000" you are currently part of the process which is very literally eradicating me, and millions upon millions of other life forms.
There is a huge difference between being a pessimist and a realist. Regardless of it's it's to a "motherfucking" degree or not.
My previous comments above are to encourage broader thinking. I'm glad your thinking includes such passionate and intelligent words. I trust you'll prosper.
rob741258 9 months ago
@rob741258 Well they aren't life supporting so no other life form would be able to complain and to be honest what other life form would complain. There isn't any in our solar system so not our problem I say. And we have a need to expand so people don't live in squalor, and we will become a better peoples from it, a fresh start.
Jamesmegarity 8 months ago
@Jamesmegarity They were hunters and foragers. The frontier was everywhere. They were bounded only by the earth, and the ocean, and the sky.
The open road still softly calls. Their little terraqueous globe is the madhouse of those hundred, thousand, millions of worlds.
They who cannot even put their own planetary home in order - riven with revelries and hatreds - are they to venture out into space?
rob741258 7 months ago
@Jamesmegarity It will not be them who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very much like them. But with more of their strengths and fewer of their weaknesses.
The only humans in all the universe came from Earth. How vulnerable they were. How perilous their infancy. How humble their beginnings.
How many rivers they had to cross before they found their way.
rob741258 7 months ago
@rob741258 Whats this got to do with anything?
Jamesmegarity 7 months ago
@Jamesmegarity wibble?
rob741258 7 months ago
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Salien1999 1 year ago
wunderbar !
MrAndersohn 1 year ago
Go to the highest spot on the Moon (it's at 5.41°S - 201.37°). Build a tower 1 Km tall (easy in the low gravity). Build another ever 100 Km (some will be nearly 20 Km tall). Now roof the whole Moon over with a geodesic globe. Install three-metre thick panes of glass or sapphire. Fill with air, water, plants, animals, people. Enjoy.
Now you're shielded from radiation, and your atmosphere won't float away. Most of the time the roof wouldn't be visible.
SailorBarsoom 1 year ago
@SailorBarsoom mhm, wait one second, let me get about 6 trillion tons of an undiscovered radiation-proof glass, about 500 billion pounds of steel, pump in 1/4 of all the water on Earth, somehow transfer green-house gases into the globe, enjoy!
Now your completely not shielded by a asteroid that could destroy a small part of the dome and get all of the Moon's atmosphere sucked into space!
Cod4Paradox 1 year ago
@Cod4Paradox
Any glass is radiation-proof if thick enough. 1/4 of all the Earth's water would bury the entire Moon many Km deep. A bigger problem than greenhouse gasses (less than a tenth of a percent of Earth's atmosphere) is nitrogen (nearly 80%). The Lunar soils have plenty of oxygen. I'm having trouble running down numbers, but I suspect that 500 billion tons would take care of the whole roof, with some left over.
I'd like to modify the design in one way, though:
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SailorBarsoom 1 year ago
I'd like to modify the design in one way, though: It turns out that you only need twelve towers, not the hundreds I was planning. I think the bulk of the building material would be sapphire. It has wonderful physical properties, and the Lunar soils contain huge amounts of the two elements it is made from: aluminum and oxygen.
The biggest import is likely to be nitrogen, and the 2% of Earth's water is a close second. BTW, it doesn't have to come from Earth.
SailorBarsoom 1 year ago
What a bullshit !
Corvard 1 year ago
A shame the moon is WAY too tiny. :(
SpadesNeil 1 year ago 27
@SpadesNeil we could make it bigger by pushing Mars or something into it.
BlackRaptor31 1 year ago
@BlackRaptor31 Then we'd mess up a myriad of other things... xD
SpadesNeil 1 year ago
@BlackRaptor31 LOL? are you serious? xD
CrownChanel 1 year ago
@BlackRaptor31 If we change something like the size of the moon it could be catastrophic. If you don't move the moon it would collide with the Earth. And if you didn't, we would have no moon and stuff like tsunamis would be a LOT more frequent, Earth would die either way.
Salien1999 1 year ago
@SpadesNeil it might be done in the future with future technologie ... the might be a gravity machine in the far future .. hwo knows ... everything is possable ... we just need science to go on and stop war ..
KingWilliamMB 7 months ago
@SpadesNeil There are moons of the outer planets smaller than earth, with thicker atmosphere's than earth so, not necessarily. the biggest problem is really the lack of a strong magnetic field to block radiation.
krazykhrisya 5 months ago
@krazykhrisya You're also talking about highly volcanic worlds that are not only constantly pumping out hot gasses, they also have a core to generate the magnetic field. Other examples include Titan which is actually larger than our moon, but its surface is absolutely covered in H2O ice. (Even if water is frozen it can still evaporate if I'm not mistaken.) Magnetic fields are less issue being so far from the sun however.
Unfortunately our moon does not have anything to generate that atmosphere.
SpadesNeil 5 months ago
@SpadesNeil Fair point. :P the only thing is, say we were to try and terraform titan, it's a prime candidate but not in terms of distance, wouldn't it have to have an atmosphere something in the order of 6 times that of earth's, even given it's smaller size? still, it's awesome to fantasize about, as terraforming is one of the few things right now that's NOT like, yeah its cool but pointless, its more like, we need to start working on it NOW because Earth is running out of room...
ExceptcanadaxD
krazykhrisya 5 months ago
@SpadesNeil its the size of a large continent , it would make great use
Droideka133 3 months ago