Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]

Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by dogma1138 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @04:32PM (#12592904)

One of the more "probable" and more or less energy sane suggestions would be using mass drivers to eject the atmosphere at high speeds to induce spin.

The mass of the venusian atmosphere is high enough for this to actually work and still leave you a lot of atmosphere to work with, it will take 20-30 years but it still doable.

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Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by hinkley on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @06:36PM (#12593798)

And pointing those canisters at Mars or the moon. Once you've hit Venusian escape velocity you might as well move that atmosphere somewhere else that needs it.

But compressing acidic gasses makes the corrosion problem worse, doesn't it? How do you deal with that?

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Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by richmarr on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @04:48AM (#12596260)

Nothing says "I love you" like super-compressed canisters of acid hurtling through space at interplanetary speeds :)

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Re:Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] by hinkley on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:57AM (#12598132)

I think you have a good candidate for the Portal 3 story line there.

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