We were hotter than Venus was at the time, before the Cyanobacteria Oxygenation Extinction event a few billion years ago
Technically Venus would be way easier than Mars to terraform. Throw oceans worth of ice asteroids at the planet and seed it with cyanobacteria, and wait. They’ll eat up all that tasty methane.
There’s this crazy theory floating around that humans only evolved to release all that carbon back into the atmosphere. I assume once we’ve finished that we’ll no longer be needed.
Which is ridiculous, because if that was how evolution worked, wouldn’t it make more sense for that carbon to have never been sequestered in the first place?
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The planet will be fine. Completely inhospitable for human life, sure, but the planet itself will manage.
Venus will get a brother!
We were hotter than Venus was at the time, before the Cyanobacteria Oxygenation Extinction event a few billion years ago
Technically Venus would be way easier than Mars to terraform. Throw oceans worth of ice asteroids at the planet and seed it with cyanobacteria, and wait. They’ll eat up all that tasty methane.
There’s this crazy theory floating around that humans only evolved to release all that carbon back into the atmosphere. I assume once we’ve finished that we’ll no longer be needed.
I thought the theory was that aliens have been farming us to heat up the planet to make it more hospitable for their reptilian species?
Which is ridiculous, because if that was how evolution worked, wouldn’t it make more sense for that carbon to have never been sequestered in the first place?