... interactions will produce the conditions life needs to survive, flourish and evolve So we must act now. “Failure to terraform Mars constitutes a failure to live up to our human nature,” Zubrin writes. Should we succeed, however, we will not only...
...from frontier businesses of the First Transcontinental Railroad and the California Gold Rush in 19th-century America. Terraformation resources can sustain and protect subaqueous natural-light habitation structures (‘habs’). Habs can be spacious, with...
... is, to redesign its surface environment so that it is similar to Earth. Our closest neighbour, Venus, is not a good candidate for terraforming because it has a hot, dense atmosphere that would be difficult to remove and because it has lost all but...
If humanity wants to settle somewhere beyond our planet then one of the problems we will face is a shortage of molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe. Unfortunately for us, O2 is very hard to come by in the vast expanses of the cosmos. Not only that but ...
... gas layer that is made up of about 96 percent carbon dioxide (CO2) - a level that is toxic to humans if breathed in directly. Terraforming Mars to make its surface habitable for Earth-based life is a subject that some are now considering...
...that a healthy population of plant and microbial life couldn’t get established if the conditions were right. Traditional terraforming means that involve massive environmental modification are currently well beyond human capability for the foreseeable...