As the gravity of the moon gives Earth its magnetic field and its tidal cycles, both vital factors in evolving earth-type life, a moon, left out of most Venus terraforming schemes, seems essential. Mercury has 150% the diameter of the earth's moon, is much more massive, and planets are set in their ways anyway, but we could capture small asteroids and make a moon out of them, couldn't we? Use watery comets to cool the place down and make an ocean? But how do you speed up the rotation? That'd be even harder to do than drafting Mercury and demoting it to a moon-- but, with the help of science, can't we make the dream of Venus as "Earth's twin" come true? C'mon! I want to move to Venus and get a nice beach house as soon as possible.
2007-03-23
07:35:31
·
13 answers
·
asked by
John (Thurb) McVey
4