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Published: 2011-09-25 11:35:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 38576; Favourites: 484; Downloads: 14976
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A direct comparison of the original state, and my own terraforming of the Solar System.Again, all science is thrown out the window and lets not pay attention to physics or anything like that.... so lets terraform EVERYTHING over 250 miles in diameter.
Updated 2/10/2016 with newer textures for Ganymede, Io,Callisto, Pluto, Charon, and a number of Saturnian moons and updated 'Original' Solar System.
The list from L to R.
Earth
Venus
Mars
Ganymede
Titan
Mercury
Callisto
Io
Luna
Europa
Triton
Pluto
Titania
Oberon
Iapetus
Rhea
Quaoar
Charon
Umbriel
Ariel
Dione
Tethys
Enceladus
Miranda
Mimas
For those that would like to point out how impossible this is, please don't. I know fully well how improbable this picture is. Most of these worlds are just dirty balls of ice with a little rock and dust. If one could raise the temperature above freezing, then they'd just turn into balls of dirty water, in space. Forget that. I just imagined their current topography was actually rock, rather than frozen water as hard as granite. Then just dome over everything and make them all little Earths. that is all I wanted to do in this picture. Don't like it? Well it has been done before. This was an idea I had bouncing around inside my head from when I was a kid in the early 1990's. This theme has also been improbably repeated in the Red Dwarf novels, Exosquad cartoon, Cowboy Bebop, Firefly/Serenity, Battlestar Galactica with it's dozen colonies.
This is art for it's own sake. I get enough numbskull comments in my youtube video that links back to here.
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i tried to zoom x3 Times But there's an Error on a Screen, it didn't Expand but only Cut the Picture and all i see is Earth and Venus and no other Planet Showing.
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Seems to work find on my end. Did you not see the scroll bar at the bottom of the picture?
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Yes, but it didn't make it to the right, the picture is cut.
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try this link.
[link] or press the DOWNLOAD button on the side and it makes a new window.
If that doesn't work then it's something wrong on your end.
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Bad news, i can't because my laptop Crash and it'll take Until January to Fix.. It Gives me a Feeling it Crash Every Year which is bull fuck.
Laptop Broke But Hardware is Okay, is that i need a $79.99 External Hard-drive to Copy ALL Memories which is important.
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May I use your planet textures in celestia?
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Waow, ambitious and really cool-looking !!
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"so lets terraform EVERYTHING over 250 miles in diameter." My kind of thinking!
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Love this work! Great job! If you dont mind, i added names to these moons and planets from Description. If you want, i can send it to you!
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No. I know what they are.
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Oh you misunderstood me Bro', of course i know you knows what are they, but other deviant users are confused, i guess. Its more clearer
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Awesome...Terraforming venus is possible ?
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All terraforming are impossible. Just only (maybe) Mars can be terraformed in far future.
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Terraforming might Take millions of Years, and we dont have time As a Sun Grows into a Giant. that'll Screw up.
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/facepalm I went through the list looking for "Moon" thanks! and I really do like this piece reminds me of the Mars series in idea
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Really awesome gallery man! The unfortunate truth though is that only heavy enough bodies can hold onto a breathable atmosphere (while at liveable tempertures). The thermal 'velocity' of a gas required to escape is about 1/6 the escape velocity of that body.
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This is fantastic... here's hoping that this is where humanity lives in the far future.
(Along with a bunch of off world colonies.)
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Lovely. But if I may giver you an advise, it would greatly improve the realism of the clouds if you gave them shadow. t might not look great on thin, semi-transparent layers, but in solid clouds like in Venys, a bit, very slight glimpse of shadow below the clouds can make marvels.
Great work!
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It didn't look good with shadows so I removed them.
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I think Venus would be the most realistic goal, cooling it down could be as easy as building an orbiting dish-like structure that would regularly eclipse the sun, cutting away maybe hours of sunlight over a day (Earth day that is) The atmosphere is already there for us, granted it is high pressure, but one could imagine building on higher grounds, even cities on pillars up where the atmospheric pressure is lower, Though if the atmosphere condesed to water then it probably won't be so heavy anymore. The gravity of it would be way better for humans than the others too. I also would fear the smaller worlds would lose their atmosphere and heat too easily, I think anything other than Venus and Mars would be too much work to maintain
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Problem with Venus isn't cutting out the sunlight, its removing the radiation. Apart from the magnetic field, We have the technology to terraform Venus just not the time or resources...throw an Atlantic ocean worth of water (Via ice asteroids from the asteroid belt, maybe even Kupier), remove the sulpher dioxide, filter the CO2, and poof...let it sit for a few minutes too cool and insta planet. or live 14km above the surface in the habital strip. Also take the bottom 16 planets on the list, break them up and spread them over mars and keeping an oxygen atmosphere would be no problem.
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I thought you're comment was rather interesting and it made me want to crunch some numbers to see what those 16 "planets" would due to mars. I started by going to the wiki sites for all of them and finding there volumes: Europa-1.593*10^10 km^3, Triton- 10,384,000,000 km^3, Pluto- 7.077*10^9 km^3, Titania- 2,065,000,000 km^3, Oberon- 1,849,000,000 km^3, Charon- 9.46*10^8 km^3, Umbriel- 837,300,000 km^3, Ariel- 812,600,000 km^3, Miranda- 54,835,000 km^3, and Mimas- 32,800,000 km^3. Next 6 of them didn't have a volume on their wiki pages so I used the volume formula: v= (4/3)(pi)(r^3), to get there respected volumes: Iapetus- r=737.3 km (v=1.68*10^9 km^3), Rhea- r=764.8 km (v=1.87*10^9 km^3), Dione- r=561.8 km (v=7.43*10^8 km^3), Tethys- r=531.7 km (v=6.3*10^8 km^3), and Enceladus- r=252.3 km (v=6.73*10^7 km^3). Lastly Quaoar didn't have its volume or its radius so I did some goofy math to get an approximate volume. I took its dimensions: 1,115 km* 1,115 km* 1,112km (and knowing that a radius is half the distance from one side of a circle to the other I found the dimensional "radii"): r=557.5 km, 557.5 km, 556 km using the radii I found the "volumes" v=7.26*10^8 km^3, 7.26*10^8 km^3, and 7.2*10^8 km^3. Since I couldn't have three volumes for one object I took the average of the three: 7.24*10^8 km^3 which was the approximate volume of Quaoar. One thing to note by the measurements is that they all had a plus/minus measurement because they weren't exact and I took the higher number to get more size for mars.
Now that I have all of the volumes I added them altogether to see what there total size is: 45,702,835,000 km^3 (4.57*10^10 km^3). This added to Mars volume (1.6318*10^11 km^3) gave me a total volume of 208,882,835,000 km^3 (2.08*10^11 km^3). Interestingly even with all of this added size it would still need about 5 more of its accumulated volume to equal Earth (1.08321*10^12 km^3). And just for one last bit of info the difference between the two volumes: 874,327,165,000 km^3 (8.74*10^11 km^3).
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but the added mass might make it large enough for its gravity to hold a thicker atmosphere. You would still need to trigger geological activity also.
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I suppose there would need to be some UV shelters over a lot of areas if Venus was terraformed and turned into the next human population area. It's a cheap way if removing the UV radiation from the sun (a lot of public pools have those where I live, Australia is in a weaker ozone layer area so its taken more seriously here) They are transparent enough to let a lot of light through, but stop most of the harmful radiation
Either that or have everything indoors and don't let anyone go outside...but then there's no point, unless Venus becomes a "farming planet" saved mostly for trees and plants (which I think are more UV tolerant than animals and people)
I like the idea of destroying the smaller ones (which are pretty useless with their low gravity) and spreading them all over Mars to increase its mass. The broken planets everywhere would make for some interesting landscapes too
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its not the UV, its the other forms of radiation and ionized particles that would be deadly, UV wouldn't be a problem there because of the thick atmosphere. Venus would be fore mining and manufacturing if anything, no need to worry about messing up the environment, and mines would be sheltered from the Solar winds by the thick rock...though there is lots of lava there, so it would be molten iron harvesting like on Mustafar in StarWars episode III.
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I thought Venus was a dead planet with no volcanic activity at all 
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"Much of the Venusian surface appears to have been shaped by volcanic activity. Venus has several times as many volcanoes as Earth, and it possesses some 167 large volcanoes that are over 100 km across. The only volcanic complex of this size on Earth is the Big Island of Hawaii. This is not because Venus is more volcanically active than Earth, but because its crust is older. Earth's oceanic crust is continually recycled by subduction at the boundaries of tectonic plates, and has an average age of about 100 million years, while the Venusian surface is estimated to be 300–600 million years old"
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True Venus has more volcanoes, but I assumed they were all ancient ones that have ceased activity millions of years ago. Venus lacks the tectonic movement and other interior disturbances and heating that the Earth has which is responsible for a lot of volcanic eruptions here. I'm not ruling out the possibility of Venus having some still-active volcanoes. But I would expect to see a badass "lava land" down there
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Thanks for the reply to my comment and the look see in my gallery. Yeah the smaller worlds are pure fantasy but it's a project I've had bouncing around in my head since I was 15 and read things like the Red Dwarf novels and the Exosquad cartoon. I know there is no scientific basis for what I did, I just wanted to make something cool. But people that don't realize that and insist of being downers... well I tend to block out those unthinking and unfeeling critics.
As far as too much work to maintain the atmospheres.. there are Worldhouses to consider, Paraterraforming.
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It would be effing awesome to see Venus finally being the paradise it was thought to be. Too bad reality is a bitch.
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Fuck Science.. this is just art. Keep that in mind and you'll be okay. Thx.
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Your Art is wonderful.
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This is AMAZING!! I absolutely love astronomy so this really jumped out of me, and impressed me...
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excellent! I have been studying terraformation for almost a year now, although highly unlikely to be possible I love the idea!
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terraformation? maybe you should study it a bit more...
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Most of the planets smaller than Mercury and Callisto are inahabital anyways, being to small. They would never be able to hold onto a atmoshere, or would be blown off by the Sun do to small or no magnetic protection. Just being realistic. Venus and Mars are very possiable (though you would have to Jumpstart Mars' magnetic sphere) (and of course Ganymede and Titan).
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Really? I had no idea! You must be some kind of genius to be the first person to point that out. What's next? Can you teach me how to be a great artist just like you?
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You terraformed Mimas?
*Jumps*
*Flies off of planet*
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