Well... there's also the problem of the borked rotational period.
I've read an astronomer's comment some where that there isn't enough mass free flaoting around in the solar system to add enough energy to Venus to get its spin to anything like 'Normal'.
Not sure how much energy you'd have to put in just to get its currently 'reverse' rotation sped up, though.
Heck... throw enough 'Cassaba howitzer' rounds into the same spot to both, maybe, adding rotatonal energy into the ball as well as use the atmic energy side effect of breaking down the acid clouds into more usable forms. I think it ends up releasing more hydrogen into the sustem. Give back what's been boiled off over the last few million years.
Plus you dump commets etc for even more H20.
In all we'd have to invest a HUGE amount more energy into the project to get a Earth 2.0 but, as you say, our investments get a planet that later generations won't need genetic engineering to stay 'Human' that you've got to really do with people on Mars, Moon or other low density worlds.
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I've read an astronomer's comment some where that there isn't enough mass free flaoting around in the solar system to add enough energy to Venus to get its spin to anything like 'Normal'.
Not sure how much energy you'd have to put in just to get its currently 'reverse' rotation sped up, though.
Heck... throw enough 'Cassaba howitzer' rounds into the same spot to both, maybe, adding rotatonal energy into the ball as well as use the atmic energy side effect of breaking down the acid clouds into more usable forms. I think it ends up releasing more hydrogen into the sustem. Give back what's been boiled off over the last few million years.
Plus you dump commets etc for even more H20.
In all we'd have to invest a HUGE amount more energy into the project to get a Earth 2.0 but, as you say, our investments get a planet that later generations won't need genetic engineering to stay 'Human' that you've got to really do with people on Mars, Moon or other low density worlds.
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