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Published: 2011-09-25 11:35:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 38590; Favourites: 484; Downloads: 14976
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Description 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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Comments: 172

asaenvolk [2011-09-26 07:25:08 +0000 UTC]

so did you take topographical maps and add water?

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1Wyrmshadow1 In reply to asaenvolk [2011-09-26 07:30:05 +0000 UTC]

Yes, and a little more work too.

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crisandm In reply to ??? [2011-09-26 00:41:06 +0000 UTC]

I love this SO MUCH!!! Thank you for doing this i can now fantasize in far greater detail.

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ahillamon In reply to ??? [2011-09-25 19:35:34 +0000 UTC]

While a neat art idea, it's too bad that from a scientific perspective it'd be pretty much impossible to terraform anything except maybe Mars, Luna and Venus, and that's with not even considering the immense costs and efforts to do so.

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LSCatilina In reply to ??? [2011-09-25 14:27:30 +0000 UTC]

Terraforming...the moon?

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1Wyrmshadow1 In reply to LSCatilina [2011-09-25 22:41:37 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I terraformed the damn moon. [link]

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brsgtjordan In reply to 1Wyrmshadow1 [2012-12-12 10:29:18 +0000 UTC]

read "Moonseed" by Stephen Baxter

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AnataraKentara [2011-09-25 14:01:31 +0000 UTC]

We should take away the deserts from earth and elsewhere, much more productive, no?

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WhippetWild In reply to ??? [2011-09-25 12:20:06 +0000 UTC]

Is the orange one, moon Titan?

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mdc01957 In reply to ??? [2011-09-25 11:49:14 +0000 UTC]

You terraformed Jupiter?!

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1Wyrmshadow1 In reply to mdc01957 [2011-09-25 11:50:47 +0000 UTC]

Where do you see Jupiter?

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mdc01957 In reply to 1Wyrmshadow1 [2011-09-25 11:52:00 +0000 UTC]

Isn't it the one next to Earth?

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TarriPup In reply to mdc01957 [2013-11-27 23:54:54 +0000 UTC]

Lol... guys make sure to read the list haha...

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SkyinOd In reply to mdc01957 [2011-09-25 12:32:31 +0000 UTC]

No, no, it's clearly Venus, on Jupiter the different color ribbons (made by a difference in direction, pressure etc) are far more prominent.

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mdc01957 In reply to SkyinOd [2011-09-25 13:38:20 +0000 UTC]

I see.

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1Wyrmshadow1 In reply to mdc01957 [2011-09-25 11:52:37 +0000 UTC]

Are you retarded? You're saying Jupiter is smaller than Earth?

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mdc01957 In reply to 1Wyrmshadow1 [2011-09-25 13:38:14 +0000 UTC]

It must have been the coloring. My bad.

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KCammy In reply to 1Wyrmshadow1 [2011-09-25 12:41:27 +0000 UTC]

I don't think he realised they were to scale.

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1Wyrmshadow1 In reply to KCammy [2011-09-25 12:45:22 +0000 UTC]

Or what Jupiter looks like.

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KCammy In reply to 1Wyrmshadow1 [2011-09-26 17:51:01 +0000 UTC]

I suppose that could be forgiveable, the colours are roughly the same, if the patterns aren't.

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PeteriDish In reply to KCammy [2013-01-10 18:29:29 +0000 UTC]

seriously, that's Venus, not Jupiter XD

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