Guy Royse wrote:
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.
Uhm, don't you mean 'increasing' the rate of spin? I mean its too slow
already and you want to slow it down further?
(I know, I know, I shouldn't have skipped all the other messages in this
thread... ;> )
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
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