Terraforming Pluto.

[Reno]

What i meant was that the "Aliens" can be in the Stone-age in the sence that, we sometime in the Very distant future land into a planet and there just would be "aliens" who are living a time that is to us known as the Stone-age.

 

[boogaboo]

I voted maybe.

We can colonize some worlds better than others... Pluto is a BAD choice, although it can have water...
1. no (near) star (like, ehhhh, SUN..). Where do you expect energy for plants comes from.
2. Temperature is very VERY low.. much terraforming to do.
3. Gravity is too low for humans.

I can also find some futuristic solutions for 1 and 2 (nanomachines and nuclear processes, respectively) but I don't think there's a solution to 3.

but wait a minute!
I heard a planet that don't have all 3 issues AND has some thin atmosphere and water!
It's called Mars.
The Moon is better to settle on than Pluto.
I'd rather check for an arbitrary planet near alpha centauri before I colonize Pluto...

In fact, Pluto is de-facto astroid that probably came from the "Ort cloud" outside the solar system (although Pluto is in the sun's magnetic field.)


In short, it can be terraformed in the future, but it would be a waste of time and effort, since at least the gravity will be low.
Perhaps as a passing point to go out from the solar system (Passport report!)



And the damn program gets stuck (yes, in your sig... 1.3.2.)

 

[Amenhotep7]

Let's turn Pluto into one big night club. "The Low-Gravity Bounce"

 

[Specialist290]

but wait a minute!
I heard a planet that don't have all 3 issues AND has some thin atmosphere and water!
It's called Mars.
The Moon is better to settle on than Pluto.
I'd rather check for an arbitrary planet near alpha centauri before I colonize Pluto...

We discussed Mars already.

In fact, Pluto is de-facto astroid that probably came from the "Ort cloud" outside the solar system (although Pluto is in the sun's magnetic field.)

1. Pluto is technically a KBO, not an asteroid, and not from the Oort Cloud, but the Kuiper Belt. Comets come from the Oort Cloud. Big difference there.
2. The scientific authority on this sort of thing, the IAU (International Astronomical Union) has ruled that Pluto is indeed a planet.

 

[boogaboo]

We discussed Mars already.

Ok.

1. Pluto is technically a KBO, not an asteroid, and not from the Oort Cloud, but the Kuiper Belt. Comets come from the Oort Cloud. Big difference there.
2. The scientific authority on this sort of thing, the IAU (International Astronomical Union) has ruled that Pluto is indeed a planet.

1. KBO?? Oort is oops 2...
2. Planets andf large astroid are almopst the same and Pluto is on the verge, whatever the IAU says..


My main point is that other planets are more hospitable than pluto.

 

[Perfection]

By the time we even get to pluto, we'll probably have enough experience from the Mars Project, as well as some possibly genetically engineered plants and trees (or microbes) that can thrive when it's just 30 degrees above absolute zero.

BS!! Mars is nowhere near as cold as pluto, it's about 210K It's seven times hotter.

I voted maybe.

We can colonize some worlds better than others... Pluto is a BAD choice, although it can have water...
1. no (near) star (like, ehhhh, SUN..). Where do you expect energy for plants comes from.
2. Temperature is very VERY low.. much terraforming to do.
3. Gravity is too low for humans.

I can also find some futuristic solutions for 1 and 2 (nanomachines and nuclear processes, respectively) but I don't think there's a solution to 3.

but wait a minute!
I heard a planet that don't have all 3 issues AND has some thin atmosphere and water!
It's called Mars.

Yeah, but Mars is still much larger then Pluto, much warmer then Pluto, and closer to the sun.

Now, with nuclear reactors and stuff, you certainly could make Pluto habitable, but that's different from Terraforming because terraforming implies a life driven sustainable process.

1. Pluto is technically a KBO, not an asteroid, and not from the Oort Cloud, but the Kuiper Belt. Comets come from the Oort Cloud. Big difference there.

Well, hold up there, I don't think it's impossible that it came from the Oort Cloud, so that may be valid (however, it no longer is in the Oort Cloud.

2. The scientific authority on this sort of thing, the IAU (International Astronomical Union) has ruled that Pluto is indeed a planet.

Yeah, but I'll bet they'll change thier tune, just like the Ceres were demoted when it was discovered Ceres was just a large example of similar bodies, so will Pluto, I mean take a look at 2004DW, it's practically a second Pluto, is almost as big (they estimate it to be 3/4 the diameter), and has a very similar orbit.

 

[Sims2789]

It's theoretically possible, but I doubt we'll ever do it. Or if we do, it will be in over 1000 years. Is jupiter's surface frozen liquid or rock? If it is the latter, I assume that it will be easier to terraform.

 

[Perfection]

It's theoretically possible,

According to what theory/theories?

but I doubt we'll ever do it. Or if we do, it will be in over 1000 years. Is jupiter's surface frozen liquid or rock? If it is the latter, I assume that it will be easier to terraform.

What does Jupiter have to do with this.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

What does Jupiter have to do with this.

It's the Jovian Empire!

 

[Winner]

Terraform Pluto ?! Does anyone really mean that seriously?

Maybe in million years, yeah, with magical technology like gravity adjusting, matter transmutation or so.

Pluto is much more like a comet than planet and from today's point of view it is ABSOLUTELY impossible

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

My plan is working.

 

[sourboy]

Pluto is entirely, or at least mostly, ice. Terraforming, assuming we had the technology to do so, would leave little result upon completion. Unless you planned to make it some sort of "Alcatraz" style prison, or even a "zoo" - there would be little planet available to use. As far as terraforming goes, I don't think it possible due to it's distance from the sun. An atmosphere may form, but unless it became as thick and toxic as Venus' - humans would not be able to live there the way we can here. Of course then we would have to live in suits and couldn't work the land - in which case it would be easier to build a space station then a Pluto-based habitat.