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engineering planetary systems.
Scott Evil — (archived)

The interesting thing about attempting to manage Venus' run-away greenhouse, is that it could help us figure out ways to manage our own greenhouse problem (assuming it really exists :)

I'm fascinated by the subject because it would truly expand the limits of our human potential.

Even if no human ever sets foot on Venus, the planet still could be used as a laboratory and even as a mass-production manufacturing plant for things that cannot be manufactured in the same massive quantities here on Earth (or somewhere else). Of course that is assuming we come-up with ways to use the pressures and corrosives to our advantage in some way.

It would be really interesting to move even a relatively small comet into low-orbit of venus just to see what type of effects would be generated in the upper atmosphere by introducing foreign elements or genetically altered life forms for a short period.

Would they cause a cascade of unintended or unanticipated effects, or would the foriegn elements and life forms be absorbed completely with almost no risidual effects at all?

I hope that if we are able to get the space program going in a post-shuttle exploration mode, that questions like this start getting more and more thought and discussion as our potential opportunities expand.

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