Hear Hear! Terraform Earth! The heck with those other planets! Actually I started this thread hoping to get a lively discussion about terraforming in general. -- Lawrence Lile Senior Project Engineer Toastmaster, Inc. Division of Salton, Inc. 573-446-5661 voice 573-446-5676 fax Howard Winter Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 03/04/2004 05:58 AM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [OT]:Terraforming (was water or Mars) Russell, On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:16:01 +1300, Russell McMahon wrote: > Terraforming of Venus has been examined at length (as may well be imagined). > The problems are intractably hard in the foreseeable future. >...< > Initial practising must be done on Mars :-) Indeed, let's just do one planet at at time, eh? :-) On the other hand, why not try to improve this one first? The problems should be smaller, and the airfare is a lot cheaper! Surely if we can't sort out where we are, a place that already supports life in abundance, why do we think we can in a place which is currently uninhabitable (subject to further survey :-) where it's many orders of magnitude more difficult? Or is this just a manifestation of the "Not Invented Here" syndrome, where most designers / engineers / programmers / whatever would prefer to build something from scratch to their own design, than to upgrade / improve / augment / debug someone else's design, even if it's "almost" working? Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics