Terraforming the Solar System

[Anthony]

Yeah, we had some discussion of the subject for Transhuman Space, and basically decided it was crazy. It's something like a thousand years for the atmosphere to just cool down to the point where you can try to do something more about it, and you'll probably have to import a mid-sized kuiper belt object to provide a usable quantity of water (with THS tech, that added additional time because you'd have to let the KBO slam into Venus, which would add some extra heat; that can be avoided with Traveller tech). We didn't really get into the topic of how to bind the CO2 in methods that don't make trouble, I think using blue-green algae to process it was many thousands of years.