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What happened to Earth?
Monday, November 7, 2005 1:19 PM
DAISYCUTTER
Monday, November 7, 2005 2:19 PM
PURPLEYIN
Monday, November 7, 2005 2:58 PM
GIANTEVILHEAD
Monday, November 7, 2005 3:42 PM
THUNDAR
Monday, November 7, 2005 3:43 PM
Monday, November 7, 2005 4:02 PM
MISBEHAVEN
Monday, November 7, 2005 4:40 PM
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Monday, November 7, 2005 8:15 PM
ROCKETJOCK
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 11:45 AM
XEROGRAVITY
Tuesday, November 8, 2005 12:07 PM
Quote:Originally posted by XeroGravity: There was a disco revival, immediately followed by mass suicide of 2/3rds of the populace. Among the dead were all the farmers and McDonald's frycooks. Humanity's few starving survivors attached bottlerockets to dumpsters and went looking for fastfood in outer space. XG Soylent Green is peeeeeopuuuuul. Can I get it supersized?
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 7:50 AM
STEVE580
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 9:43 AM
TENTHCREWMEMBER
Could you please just make it stranger? Stranger. Odder. Could be weirder. More bizarre. How about uncanny?
Quote:Originally posted by RocketJock: ...the Earth as seen in the opening of Serenity seems lush and verdant, and not grossly polluted or damaged in any manner easily observable from orbit.
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 10:32 AM
ZEEK
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 11:49 AM
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 6:49 PM
Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:45 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Giantevilhead: There are only a few places in our solar system that can be terraformed, Mars, Venus, our moon, and a couple of the moons of Jupiter. My guess is that they succeeded in terraforming the moon, got arrogant, tried to terraform Mars and Venus but failed miserably.
Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:26 AM
Thursday, November 10, 2005 6:07 AM
MER
Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:32 AM
Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by DaisyCutter: How can you tereform a body that has no atmosphere in the first place, ie Lunar?
Thursday, November 10, 2005 1:26 PM
Thursday, November 10, 2005 1:41 PM
Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:22 PM
SAMURAIX47
Quote:Originally posted by PurpleYin: This rotating motion of the iron core will set up a magnetosphere, which will deflect most the solar wind that would blast away an atmosphere (through ionisation, and evaporation. not 'airflow' or anything like that). Now we have a shielded planetoid that could have an atmosphere, but doesn’t. So now we use atmospheric processors to slowly churn out an atmosphere. Woo! Terraforming half way there!
Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:04 PM
Quote:Originally posted by XeroGravity: I so desperately wanna get technical and debate this issue. In a nutshell, Mars cannot sustain life as it is. It's mass and it's rate of rotation (relative to what percentage of it's core remains molten), and it's proximity to the gravitational field of the sun makes it unviable to "naturally" support human life. You can't build an atmosphere on that planet because it's electromagnetic field can't maintain a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere conducive to life.
Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:43 PM
Friday, November 11, 2005 8:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by XeroGravity: I so desperately wanna get technical and debate this issue. In a nutshell, Mars cannot sustain life as it is. Of course, we could use that secret government reverse-engineered grey alien technology and build human-friendly anti-grav platforms with forcefields maintaining atmospheres we can live in.
Saturday, November 12, 2005 2:34 AM
RABBIT2
Quote:Humanity's few starving survivors attached bottlerockets to dumpsters and went looking for fastfood in outer space.
Saturday, November 12, 2005 3:38 AM
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