Yes, but it doesn't have the Silly Quantities of Power required to actually do transmutation on the level you're talking about (where 'Silly' means 'power requirements would be high enough to destroy the planet outright').
Speaking of Silly Quantities of Power, there is another potential problem with terraforming Venus that is probably a lot worse than getting hydrogen there or making it via transmutation. As it turns out, Venus has a rotation cycle of 243 days. That is, rotational cycle on it's axis not around the Sun. In other words, the day on Venus is 139,968 hours long. It seems to me, although I must admit that I have not done the math, this would need to be reduced or you would have a planet like the McDLT with a hot side and a cool side. That could make getting anything to live there a problem if the solar side was significantly warmer than the cold side. Reducing the rate of spin of a planet to fix this would most certainly take Silly Quanties of Energy. Not that any of this *really* matters, it's just fun. After all, this is just a game we play with our friends in the basement. Go ahead and bend a little physics, I won't tell. Guy -- "I'm Guy Royse and I approve this message." _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
