Group: sci.energy
From: "Bob Eld"
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: Terraforming Venus


"habshi" wrote in message
news:@...
> We need to sprinkle some catalysts or algae on Venus which
> will make the sulfuric acid precipitate as sulfur and water reforming
> the oceans and making Venus pleasant enough for us to go there when
> the mad Islamists have taken over Mother Earth.
>
> excerpt
> Venus Express has found evidence for past oceans, and
> discovered a huge double atmospheric vortex at the south pole of the
> planet. Studies show that Venus's atmosphere was once much more like
> Earth's and that there was probably much liquid water on the surface.
> A runaway greenhouse effect was caused by evaporation of water, which
> - added to Venus's carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere and thick clouds of
> sulphur dioxide - produced the strongest planetary warming in the
> solar system, pushing surface temperatures above 460C. This makes
> Venus's surface hotter than Mercury's, even though Venus is nearly
> twice Mercury's distance from the Sun and receives only 25 per cent of
> Mercury's solar radiation.
>
> Venus Express:
> /science-e/www/area/?fareaid=64
>

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to send the "Mad Islamists" to Venus so we can
keep Mother Earth. Why should we leave?