Terraforming Pluto.

[PlutonianEmpire]

Not to mention the last time we had a mars sized mass in close proximity to Earth things got really messy really quick

When did that happen? I heard that earth was approached by a neptune-sized rock planet, and then got colonized by space aliens from that planet.

 

[Perfection]

When did that happen?

Oh about 4.5 billion years ago. Bloody thing slammed right into us! Pretty much wiped out everything, but we did get a large satellite out of the deal.

 

[The Last Conformist]

A Mars-sized thing hit us 4.5 billion years ago or so. Debris from the blast formed the moon.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Oh, yeah, that. Now I remember.

 

[Hakim]

Um? Pluto is well smaller than our Moon, not to mention Mars. It's only got a couple of percent of Mars' mass.

You have to add mass as well,

And I just out of the blue made the assumption that a Mars sized planet would provide gravitation enough to sustain a human population.

I agree with Perfection that moving a planet(oid) is not really terraforming though.

 

[The Last Conformist]

@Hakim: If you add enough mass to reach Martian size (which is quite low if we want to maintain a human-breathable atmosphere), the resulting object will be 98% or so non-Plutonian. Again, it's like adding the Grand Erg Occidental to your sandbox - whether Pluto was there to begin with will make next to no difference to the end result.

 

[~Corsair#01~]

Pluto's resources aren't enough to justify the effort needed to terraform it. It would be far wiser to build a spacestation in orbit of the planet(oid).

 

[Hakim]

@TLC: Oh well, that does not seem practical does it?

@PlutonianEmpire: forget it!

 

[The Last Conformist]

@Hakim: Enlarging Pluto to Martian size? No, it's pretty much the definition of impracticality.

 

[anarchywrksbest]

Now, terraforming the Sun! That's an idea!

 

[Bozo Erectus]

We'll terraform Pluto after we've leanrned alot from our experiences terraforming Mars, Venus, Titan, and Europa. Theres no rush, Pluto aint going' no place

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

We'll terraform Pluto after we've leanrned alot from our experiences terraforming Mars, Venus, Titan, and Europa. Theres no rush, Pluto aint going' no place

I agree a lot with that. Mars and Titan sound like pieces of cake. Venus would require special "Oxygen Factories" that would take in CO2 and spit out O2, and that would take centuries. Europa may be a bit challenging if it turns out to be a complete waterworld.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Europa may be a bit challenging if it turns out to be a complete waterworld.

We may have to 'Europaform' ourseves through gentic engineering, rather than Terraform Europa. Maybe your great great great great grandkids will have webbed hands and feet, and infrared vision

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Or, we could "Plutoform" ourselves so that we can breathe the tiny bit of "air" that pluto does have

 

[The Last Conformist]

At a rough estimate, there's one human being that would want to live on Pluto ...

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Thanks for the rude sarcasm.

 

[Perfection]

At a rough estimate, there's one human being that would want to live on Pluto ...

I dunno, I was thinking about putting up a nice vacation home.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I think Last Conformist was talking about ME when he said that.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I was thinking of Windows Millennium? Actually not ...

@Perfection: Since when are you a mere human being?

 

[Blackbird_SR-71]

Yes Pluto is a planet and most scientist agree with that although the whole planet telling thing is already screwed up and in a mess. As for the terraforming it won't be possible for a couple of reasons:

1. You can't just transport water over to Pluto. Pluto is small but to us it is extremely huge.

2. The atmoshphere is mostly Methene and their is traces of oxygen only so that would be a problem. Also Plutos atmosphere disappears and freezes every cycle.

3. How would you provide so much energy when we can't even fulfill our own planets need for energy.

Basically its impossible and will stay impossible for centuries if not mulleniums