Can someone with more knowledge of science than me explain to me why it would be impossible to alter an extremophile bacteria or algae or something that produces oxygen as a waste product to start the terraforming process of venus? No competition or predators, I imagine a properly adapted organism could proliferate quite quickly unopposed, possibly even quickly enough to make an appreciable difference in atmosphere in our lifetime?
Carl Sagan was for this. I think especially if there are native prokaryotes to crib from we could design a cloud living organism to do this. Sagan plan was rejected because even extremephiles can only handle places 100 degrees hotter than normal not molten lead temps. But of course we would not be sending them to the surface. This said I am against teraforming i favor lower energy solutions. Even if the O2 levels were earthlike in would still have a horrible rotation ,no magnetic field and 3 atms at the surface and no drinkable water.
Hmm. I guess that atmosphere provides some problems. But still, I imagine if we can make small changes over time we'll eventually have tech enough to compensate for something like the atmosphere, lack of magnetic field etc, to make it worthwhile to live there. Venus has to have some kind of valuable property.
I think you get the tech by working on the tech. I am a skeptic/curmudgeon about the idea hat tech progresses under its own steam towards some predictable end.
For Science. And because Venus will be farming planet. They say floating cities but really it would have to be floating farms. All that Co2 and N Days that are 243 earth days long = cabbages the size of houses.
Now there is the spirit unfortunately you gotta bring your own water and potassium as well as pretty much everything other than CO2 , Nitrogen and Sulfur.
Unfortunately it would be heavy water The Veneral deuterium/hydrogen ratio tips drastically to the deuterium side. I was thinking if maybe there was a way to condense the solar wind with a big ole negatively charged field. What do you get when you mix superheated hydrogen ions and [C]O2? I left out a C
I looked it up Methane and Water a big wet fart. So you are correct about the bad joke. Heavy water is used as a coolant in reactors but energy is cheap on Venus and heavy metals are not.