>>13646053
WTF did you get that quote from? But this isn't a skitzo thread, I'm pretty sure all those rocks have good explanations and if you get a enough odd rocks and plants, some will look like each other, mostly due to gravity and how stuff will form in piles or even craters.
Not sure WTF my link ain't linking but here is link to the link for the link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus#cite_note-11
Landis, Geoffrey (2011). "Terraforming Venus: A Challenging Project for Future Colonization" (PDF). AIAA SPACE 2011 Conference & Exposition.
"A “sweet spot” exists in the atmosphere of Venus, at an altitude at which the temperature is roughly similar to
that of Earth, and the atmospheric pressure is also similar to that of Earth. Figure 1 shows the atmospheric pressure
and temperature in the atmosphere of Venus as a function of altitude above the surface. The atmospheric pressure is
roughly equal to that of Earth sea level at slightly over 54 km above the mean surface, and the temperature is 20°C
at slightly under 56 km altitude. Near and slightly above these altitudes, the atmospheric pressure and the
atmospheric temperature approach those of the surface environment of Earth."
They say Venus has runaway Green House Effect, but if there is a Sweet Spot 35 miles up, and GMO airborne algae can reproduce by creating its own water, and needing little water due to high CO2, maybe the Algae would shade the Green House enough to reverse that runaway effect. O2 is 72% as dense as CO2 so if plants had flotation pods like picrel they could stay in Sweet Spot.
Lets remember that Earth didn't have O2 until life created it, and these guys say even when it started getting O2 the O2 was mostly sucked up by reacting with minerals on the surface, just like I said would happen on Venus. Also mentions O2 was largely reacting with Sulfur to form Sulfur Dioxide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_history_of_oxygen
I'm not seeing any Deal Breakers, in fact pretty much just the opposite. Seems rockets are well enough sorted out and G2G, so first step should be simulating Venus 35 miles up and see if we can get Algae to thrive and reproduce.
"Traditional GMO: Modifying crops for commercial use is a very expensive, large-scale undertaking, due to extensive regulatory approval (YEAH, we ain't gonna need THAT :)) processes and the costs of development and testing.
CRISPR: The CRISPR technology itself is famously inexpensive and accessible, which is why simple experiments can be done in a classroom."
