Group: sci.energy
From: habshi@anony.com (habshi)
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2008 7:23 PM
Subject: Terraforming Venus

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