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Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 10 months agoI’m partial to the idea of converting Mercury into a star lifter / thruster / planetary shade. Blocking sunlight to Venus would cause the atmosphere to cool, then freeze and fall as snow. Then you can disassemble Venus too for more raw material. That’s a massive store of carbon, oxygen, and sulfur. Solar powered mass drivers operating out of a planetary vacuum cut costs of launching material into space.
I’ve watched a bunch of Isaac Arthur.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t disassemble Venus. That planet is far too easy to terraform. Disassemble Mars, asteroids, and the various otherwise useless moons, comets, asteroids, and proto-planets in the heliosphere
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, I understand the argument for terraforming, but I’m more of an O’Neil Cylinder kind of guy. I prefer the idea of overwhelming surface area via orbital habitats rather than gravity wells. Considering the eons involved with stripping both inward planets down to the last bucketful though, I’m certainly in favor of a few millennia to fully explore and research them both beforehand.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A solar thruster doubles as a starlifting platform. Kurzgesagt has a video on is as well as PBS Spacetime