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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by delecti on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:56PM (#20309485)
I'm more excited by the prospect that we've started terraforming Venus. It has an atmosphere, and with a lot of CO2. Wouldn't take many surviving plant microbes on one of the probes we've sent to start things off. Get the CO2 under control and in a few million years it might be downright balmy.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by guenthert on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:45PM (#20310041)
Well, at this time, we're venusforming Terra though.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by Retric on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:46PM (#20309778)
Edit: ops grand parent mentioned Mars and it’s atmosphere is extremely thin. For comparison at 35,000 feet on earth it’s 3.4 psi. On mars at ground level it’s 0.088 psi. Add in being 53% further from the sun and would take quite a bit to make Mars habitable.

Venus has the opposite problem sitting much closer to the sun and with much higher atmospheric pressure.

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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by MPSimmons on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:00PM (#20309867)
The op actually said 'Venus'. You're right about Mars, though.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by Analemma_ on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:17PM (#20309943)
Correct me if I’m wrong, but terraforming Venus’s atmosphere wouldn’t do anything about the pressure, right? Even if all that CO2 became oxygen, and it cooled off a bit, Venus would still have almost 100 atmospheres of pressure at the surface and still be basically uninhabitable.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by inflatableDodo on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:24PM (#20309965)
Because of the thickness of the atmosphere, Venus is probably more suited to floating cloud cities.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by mrfusion on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:16PM (#20309932)
I think the big problem is that there is no water on Venus though?
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by throwaway5752 on Friday June 28, 2019 @09:06PM (#20310124)
The problem is there's very little hydrogen on Venus. It has next to no magnetic field, too. Days last 243 Earth days. There are a lot of problems with Venus.
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by thechao on Saturday June 29, 2019 @07:50AM (#20312054)
This sounds like a conversation between a used-planet-salesman & a middle-aged couple who’re ‘just looking’.
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