Science Terraforming / Colonizing a planet: How would we do this?

**Ming the Merciless** · 08-20-2014, 04:47 PM

OK ChiefsPlanet....

We need to get off this ****ing rock.

How would we go about it? We have all of the cash we need (the inventor of drop box and Dave lane funding us) and we have all of the science / education (Dave Lane's degrees and intelligence combined with the rest of us, as well as CDcox's math skillz)

We have KC native and Chris 616 to guide us spiritually when we get there......and we have Pat , Donger, Cosmo, AUstinChief and others to be our council of elders / leaders.

We have a cornucopia of resources. We have an embarrassment of riches...

Lets make this happen...How do we start?

Basically we send some spacecraft out with some machines that take rocks and dirt and shit and make water and air/atmosphere while we wait and hibernate until we can emerge onto our new land?

What do we send? What do we need? What would life be like?

How could we do shit better than we are now?

What could go wrong?

Big Poppa Payne · 08-20-2014, 04:52 PM

The person to ask about this would be Matthew McConaughey.

Stanley Nickels · 08-20-2014, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Poppa Payne

The person to ask about this would be Matthew McConaughey.

Direckshun · 08-20-2014, 05:02 PM

I volunteer my services as a beautiful person.

**Ming the Merciless** · 08-20-2014, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Direckshun

I volunteer my services as a beautiful person.

I suppose we would be in need of breeders and men capable of carrying a fetus until birth.

vailpass · 08-20-2014, 05:13 PM

1. Load spaceship full of booze and hotties
2. Launch Genesis Device
3. ???
4. Profit

**mdchiefsfan** · 08-20-2014, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by vailpass

1. Load spaceship full of booze and hotties
2. Launch Genesis Device
3. ???
4. Profit

This

**mdchiefsfan** · 08-20-2014, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Pawnmower

I suppose we would be in need of breeders and men capable of carrying a fetus until birth.

Hammock Parties · 08-20-2014, 05:03 PM

Rain Man will break upon this thread like a tsunami upon a Japanese shore.

Nightfyre · 08-20-2014, 05:32 PM

Chiefsplanet would be too busy PIIHB to actually procreate. Extinction.

There would probably be too much effort into cultivating an actual AIDS tree to devote resources to agriculture. Consequently we would starve. Extinction.

Someone would undoubtedly find it cute to spike the punch with antifreeze and we would all die. Extinction.

A being of infinite knowledge would probably approach us, call himself "Q," and a mod would promptly rename him:
R
E
P
O
S
T

Then the being would kill us all. Extinction.

Lonewolf Ed · 08-20-2014, 05:33 PM

I guess since the docs say I am dying, you could throw me out of the ship first to see if the terraforming worked and made a survivable atmosphere. Sorry if that comes across as too much gallows humor!

vailpass · 08-20-2014, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed

I guess since the docs say I am dying, you could throw me out of the ship first to see if the terraforming worked and made a survivable atmosphere. Sorry if that comes across as too much gallows humor!

Only on CP.
Hang in there man. They thought it was over when the Germans bombed pearl harbor too and they were wrong.

**Rain Man** · 08-20-2014, 05:53 PM

I read once long ago a concept that seems cool, and which seems more feasible than ever.

The original concept talked about Venus and how the atmosphere has too much carbon dioxide in it. But apparently there's some sort of bacteria that eats carbon dioxide and releases oxygen. So all you do is shoot a rocket of this bacteria into Venus' atmosphere where it goes to town like a sumo wrestler at an all you can eat buffet. You wait 500 years or so and then you've got a nice atmosphere full of oxygen to breathe.

With all of the specialized forms of life that have been discovered in recent years, it seems like the first permanent residents won't be human, but rather will be some type of organism that lives on sulfur or carbon dioxide or some other nasty element, and that spits out stuff that we like - oxygen and hydrogen and stuff. Once their work is done, you send the next generation of microbes or whatever to build up more of the stuff we like and less of the stuff we hate. Then you send tadpoles or something, and just keep working your way up the food chain, maybe throwing in the occasional mammoth for fun.

I think that human colonization would ideally not involve people in spacesuits living in sealed environments. Ideally, we do a few hundred years of investment, and then land our ships in a new Garden of Eden. Wouldn't that be cool?

Arrowhead Thunder · 08-20-2014, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I read once long ago a concept that seems cool, and which seems more feasible than ever.

The original concept talked about Venus and how the atmosphere has too much carbon dioxide in it. But apparently there's some sort of bacteria that eats carbon dioxide and releases oxygen. So all you do is shoot a rocket of this bacteria into Venus' atmosphere where it goes to town like a sumo wrestler at an all you can eat buffet. You wait 500 years or so and then you've got a nice atmosphere full of oxygen to breathe.

With all of the specialized forms of life that have been discovered in recent years, it seems like the first permanent residents won't be human, but rather will be some type of organism that lives on sulfur or carbon dioxide or some other nasty element, and that spits out stuff that we like - oxygen and hydrogen and stuff. Once their work is done, you send the next generation of microbes or whatever to build up more of the stuff we like and less of the stuff we hate. Then you send tadpoles or something, and just keep working your way up the food chain, maybe throwing in the occasional mammoth for fun.

I think that human colonization would ideally not involve people in spacesuits living in sealed environments. Ideally, we do a few hundred years of investment, and then land our ships in a new Garden of Eden. Wouldn't that be cool?

Right track, cyanobacteria and chemobacteria, respectively. 500 years is probably a little off the mark. it would probably take millions of years. Ideally, the planet would need rather large quantities of liquid water.

vailpass · 08-20-2014, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Arrowhead Thunder

Right track, cyanobacteria and chemobacteria, respectively. 500 years is probably a little off the mark. it would probably take millions of years. Ideally, the planet would need rather large quantities of liquid water.

What are you waiting for man? Get to it...

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Rain Man NFL's #1 Ermines Fan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $3088491 VARSITY	I read once long ago a concept that seems cool, and which seems more feasible than ever. The original concept talked about Venus and how the atmosphere has too much carbon dioxide in it. But apparently there's some sort of bacteria that eats carbon dioxide and releases oxygen. So all you do is shoot a rocket of this bacteria into Venus' atmosphere where it goes to town like a sumo wrestler at an all you can eat buffet. You wait 500 years or so and then you've got a nice atmosphere full of oxygen to breathe. With all of the specialized forms of life that have been discovered in recent years, it seems like the first permanent residents won't be human, but rather will be some type of organism that lives on sulfur or carbon dioxide or some other nasty element, and that spits out stuff that we like - oxygen and hydrogen and stuff. Once their work is done, you send the next generation of microbes or whatever to build up more of the stuff we like and less of the stuff we hate. Then you send tadpoles or something, and just keep working your way up the food chain, maybe throwing in the occasional mammoth for fun. I think that human colonization would ideally not involve people in spacesuits living in sealed environments. Ideally, we do a few hundred years of investment, and then land our ships in a new Garden of Eden. Wouldn't that be cool? __________________ I'm putting random letters here as a celebration of free speech: xigrakgrah misorojeq rkemeseit.
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