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Re: Implications of a terraformed Venus/Triton
Dense gases like nitrogen sticking around make sense. But that much helium is downright spooky weird.
If literally only hydrogen is needed, but none of the commonly attached elements, then you're left with scooping from gas giants.
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Re: Implications of a terraformed Venus/Triton
More likely coal, but either way, does a surface consisting of about 200 tons per square meter of flammable materials seem like a good idea in combination with an oxygen atmosphere? You need to arrange to bury it somehow, and I don't think Venus has convenient subduction zones. You might actually want to import some nickel-iron asteroids and use them to store carbon.
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For a hypothetical distant future primitives setting, having a large deep layer of diamonds is interesting at least.
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CaCO3 would end up using more oxygen than the original CO2 did.
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Yes, but I am moving literal oceans of H2O onto the planet...
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EDIT-- oh, but you come through it with chirality flipped. That would be rather a problem for a living thing. Or is it even worse? What would that do on an atomic scale? Anything? Is spin reversed? Do electrons turn into positrons? That would be kind of exciting- infinite antimatter for everyone! But it would sort of prohibit using it as a sun-rocket, since I want Venus in a non-vaporized state. Well, actually I guess that's not true. I could just use a much smaller wormhole, then Venus's atmosphere become the matter side of the matter-antimatter reaction, and now I'm using an antimatter rocket. Interesting second-order assumption, though. If you have wormholes, you have cheap antimatter. EDIT AGAIN-- Yes, it turns out that they do make antimatter! Neat. The big brains refer to this as an Alice's Universe, and the charge on a particle is a Cheshire Charge. I guess ya learn somethin' every day.
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