User:Navenfaux
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[edit] Books
Some of Will Wright's reasons for creating this game is to bring all areas of science, math, ext together. Well it's working. I just bought two books.. One is Past Worlds-Archaeology and one is Origins- Fourteen billion Years of Cosmic Evolution. I'd like to mention that I've had an interest in both topics, but I thought it would be beneficial to being further Amazed by Will's genius game (and to get great building designs(LOL)). Maybe I can add some input here as I read into them.
[edit] Terraforming
This topic interests me, and if I made an article, it would be one more thing for me to be obligated to do. So I bring you a sum up of what Wiki had on terraforming. Enjoy, and use it here in Spore Wiki.
[edit] Methods of Terraforming:
[edit] Building the atmosphere
Impacting a comet onto the surface of the planet might cause destruction to the point of being counter-productive.It may be better to impact several smaller asteroids into the planet, both to build up the planet mass and to add to the atmosphere. Keeping these smaller impacts on their own will eventually build up the temperature as well as mass to both the planet and its atmosphere. Hydrogen importation could also be done for atmospheric and hydrospheric engineering. Depending on the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, importation and reaction of hydrogen would produce heat, water and graphite.
[edit] Converting atmosphere
A planet's atmosphere could potentially be converted into some other form by reacting it with externally supplied elements.
[edit] Removing atmosphere
Removal of atmosphere could be attempted by a variety of methods, possibly in combination. Directly lifting atmospheric gas into space would likely prove very difficult.
[edit] Paraterraforming
Also known as the "worldhouse" concept, or domes in smaller versions, paraterraforming involves the construction of a habitable enclosure on a planet which eventually grows to encompass most of the planet's usable area. The enclosure would consist of a transparent roof held one or more kilometres above the surface, pressurized with a breathable atmosphere, and anchored with tension towers and cables at regular intervals. Paraterraforming has several advantages over the traditional approach to terraforming. For example, it provides an immediate payback to investors; the worldhouse starts out small in area (a domed city for example), but those areas provide habitable space from the start. The paraterraforming approach also allows for a modular approach that can be tailored to the needs of the planet's population, growing only as fast and only in those areas where it is required. Finally, paraterraforming greatly reduces the amount of atmosphere that one would need to add to planets like Mars in order to provide Earthlike atmospheric pressures. By using a solid envelope in this manner, even bodies which would otherwise be unable to retain an atmosphere at all (such as asteroids) could be given a habitable environment. The environment under an artificial worldhouse roof would also likely be more amenable to artificial manipulation.
[edit] Cloud-top colonization
In effect, a gasbag full of human-breathable air would sustain itself and extra weight (such as a colony) in midair. Because there is not a significant pressure differential between the inside and the outside of the breathable-air balloon, any rips or tears would not result in an explosive decompression, but rather would only diffuse at normal atmospheric mixing rates, giving time to repair any such defects. Such colonies could be constructed at any rate desired, allowing a dynamic approach instead of needing any 'fell swoop' solutions. They could be used to gradually transform the atmosphere, with their impact directly related to the number of colonies in the atmosphere. As the constructed colonies increased, more solar panels could be used to absorb insolation and thus cool Venus; they could also be used to grow plant matter that would reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. In the beginning, any impact would be insignificant, but as the number of colonies grew, they could transform Venus more and more rapidly.
[edit] Adding heat
This would increase the planet's temperature directly, and also vaporize water and carbon dioxide to increase the planet's greenhouse effect. Altering the color of the surface with dark dust, soot, dark microbial life forms or lichens would transfer a larger amount of incoming solar radiation to the surface as heat before it is reflected off into space again. Using life forms is particularly attractive since they could propagate themselves.
[edit] Important Terms
===terraforming:=== the theoretical process of modifying a planet, moon, or other body to a more habitable atmosphere, temperature, or ecology. ALSO: ===Terraforming:=== a process of planetary engineering, specifically directed at enhancing the capacity of an extra-terrestrial planetary environment to support life. The ultimate in terraforming would be to create an uncontained planetary biosphere emulating all the functions of the biosphere of the Earth, one that would be fully habitable for human beings.
===Planetary Engineering:=== the application of technology for the purpose of influencing the global properties of a planet.
===Geoengineering:=== planetary engineering applied specifically to the Earth. It includes only those macroengineering concepts that deal with the alteration of some global parameter, such as the greenhouse effect, atmospheric composition, insolation or impact flux.
===Astrophysical Engineering:=== taken to represent proposed activities, relating to future habitation, that are envisaged to occur on a scale greater than that of "conventional" planetary engineering.
===Habitable Planet(HP):=== A world with an environment sufficiently similar to the Earth as to allow comfortable and free human habitation.
===Biocompatible Planet (BP):=== A planet possessing the necessary physical parameters for life to flourish on its surface. If initially lifeless, then such a world could host a biosphere of considerable complexity without the need for terraforming.
===Easily Terraformable Planet (ETP):=== A planet that might be rendered biocompatible, or possibly habitable, and maintained so by modest planetary engineering techniques and with the limited resources of a starship or robot precursor mission.
[edit] Interesting Facts:
Mars could be the most likely canidate for terraformation.
In 1961, Carl Sagan first suggested changing Venus by seeding algae, thus removing carbon dioxide and reducing the green house effect, which involves the use of genetically engineered bacteria to fix carbon into organic forms.
The first confrence abut terraforming was called "Planetary Modeling"
In 1979, James Oberg held another conference called "First Terraforming Colloquium", in which he popularized terraforming concepts to the general public.
Terraforming itself became the prefered term in 1982
Links of Importance: Terraforming Wiki The Terraforming Information Pages
