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Re:The Argument Against Terraforming Mars (2016) by mabbo on Sunday June 04, 2017 @09:20PM (#14484705)
> It's not clear whether Venus or Mars is an easier target for colonization

Actually, despite my above pro-Venus talk, Mars is still an easier option. I wound up on a wiki-spiral just now reading about options for Venus- turns out plants would not work for converting that CO2. The process for CO2 conversion needs Hydrogen- and Venus has none.

We'd need some kind of trade-triangle between Mars, Venus and Jupiter, dumping CO2 from Venus to Mars, then moving H from Jupiter to Venus. We need to find some product Mars has that Jupiter wants, then we'd have it figured out.

Re:The Argument Against Terraforming Mars (2016) by RugnirViking on Monday June 05, 2017 @08:45AM (#14487175)
Mars has solid minerals, which I assume could be in short supply on any base near jupiter
Re:The Argument Against Terraforming Mars (2016) by hutzlibu on Monday June 05, 2017 @09:46AM (#14487528)
Jupizer has lots of moons ...
Re:The Argument Against Terraforming Mars (2016) by RugnirViking on Monday June 05, 2017 @12:20PM (#14488812)
While true, I was more thinking that there would be shortage of something between those moons. Maybe I'm mistaken