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Published: 2015-10-16 18:58:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 36709; Favourites: 348; Downloads: 0
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So I tried doing this a long time ago and honestly it wasn't going too great because I didn't really know how to make planets. However over the next couple of years I learned some new tricks with photoshop and I think I did a pretty good job. Basically I was able to take topographical maps of the six worlds between the asteroid belt and our sun, and lay continents over the higher areas of the planet. Before you say "But Vince, those continents don't match the planets on the top of the picture!" rest assured that they do. I just spherized different parts of the map before I realized that I should make this piece.Sol 1- Mercury | Class: Planet | Surface: Terrestrial | Officially Terraformed: 3881 AHD
Sol 2- Venus | Class: Planet | Surface: Terrestrial | Officially Terraformed: 2801 AHD
Sol 3- Earth | Class: Planet | Surface: Terrestrial | Life-bearing since: Roughly 1-Billion BHD
Sol 3.1- Luna | Class: Moon | Surface: Terrestrial | Officially Terraformed: 2929 AHD
Sol 4- Mars| Class: Planet | Surface: Terrestrial | Officially Terraformed: 2260 AHD
Sol 4/5 B1- Ceres | Class: Dwarf | Surface: Terrestrial | Officially Terraformed: 3573 AHD
Basically this is a concept for my story universe. Not every one of these is going to be important in one of my actual stories, but it's a beautiful prospect for humanity's future. Basically in the coming few thousand years, the human race learns how to alter the surfaces of pretty much any world that they can stand on- and bring life to every one in the Sol System, as well as several uninhabited systems.
Anyway, I hope you like it. I plan on doing more of these in the near future- my next project in this series is going to be Jupiter's moons.
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Hey guys, I'm rebooting this series:
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For all the terraformed planets the elevation maps are wrong, thus geography is wrong totally.
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Ceres can not be terraformed. And also all moons except Luna and Io. Because they are ice worlds, not rocky. About 50% of their structure is water ice and if you warm them up you only get tiny water worlds which quickly evaporate into space, after that they will become even smaller - something like asteroids.
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Ceres looks like it would be the most challenging with it being so small. I wonder how dense of an atmosphere it could really hold onto. You'd get some really tall plants though if you could get the climate right
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You know if I'm being toooootally honest, I'm not sure if I'm going to actually terraform Ceres in my rebooted series- if I do it'll be in the far future when I can just say that the science looks like magic. You're totally right about the plants though! Got big plans for low-gravity flora and fauna
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I love that you included Ceres in this. What a lovely little marble it would make.
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not a criticism of your project but perhaps terraforming altogether... by the time we have the tech, means, resources to do such a thing, we will have long past escaped the strictly biological realm. and cyborgs, genetic tweaks, robots, may not need a thick atmosphere and low radiation and oxygen etc. they might just end up being projects not of necessity but art.
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People already use robots to go where we cannot, gathering data from deadly environments we cannot survive in. Cybernetics is used in people who have an impairment, some are physical, others in senses. But virtually no moderately healthy human uses cybernetics because there is no need to. Space has lost it allure when our telescopes became more power and when we, as a species, decided to stop sending people to the moon. These ideas you have were already explored, and only one is in place. Genetic tweaking on human physiology is for all intents and purposes, unethical and highly illegal. There are too many dangers, even with current and possible future technology, that justify experimentation on anyone, even criminals. Also keep in mind our organic bodies; they are hardwired to purge foreign objects inside the body like diseases, this is a real life problem with artificial and even many transplanted organs,. The body knows its foreign and will purge it, regardless whether or not it's the only thing keeping you alive. That's not always the case but for the most part, in order to remain functional, most people have to take medication or visit the doctor more frequently to ensure they don't die or have future medical problems.
Even then, what about infants? They have to be born on Earth-like planets, they have to grow up quite a bit to handle the modifications you're proposing. We can't modify them from their parents DNA and we can't implant cybernetics without killing them. That is not a challenge, that is fact, infant and fetus organisms cannot be modified with current or any experimental future technology because life at that stage is at its most precarious, too 'unstable'; to alter without risk of death, living is not always guaranteed even for healthy babies.
Simply put, human genetic modification and cybernetics were explored and either were deemed inhumane or not worth investing mass production into. Robots are really the only thing in action today and they're still in terms limited to locomotion; so say a Mars rover is tipped on its side, unless there's a clamp or a limb (i imagine there are) to push it upright again, it's effectively lost to space explorers. Most robots don't have the same muscles or flexibility as a human so they get easily in simple holes or get knocked over and some even get snagged on rocks, roper or fences, which is why drones are more popular because they're not hindered by terrestrial environments. Just remember, there are at least two sides to everything.
Terraforming, though it takes years, is often more popular because there are more benefits such as a thriving new world to safely colonize without the need and long-term maintenance of air-tight seals and facilities. It also effectively, expands the area of habitation for people with new agricultural land to experiment with. Because even with modification to the human body, we cannot replace our bodily functions such as eating and breathing, they are too ingrained into our DNA to purge without killing or dehumanizing ourselves (I mean that literally, as in every DNA strand in every little thing needs Oxygen and/or Carbon Dioxide to stimulate growth).
Yes it takes a long time to terraform but the rewards are greater than modifying a single species.
(EDIT) Terraforming doesn't have to be the entire planet; a sizable, preferably large, dome can serve just as well to create a mini-environment to sustain life.
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That aside, I do love this picture, the before and after images of pre- and post- terraforming planets. Beautifully executed and effective to bring life from lifelessness.
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The Sahara desert is an ecosystem that provides critical and unique habitat to residential and migratory species, it even serves a recreational purpose as a tourist site. Hell, there are cultures in the Sahara that strive there, nomadic villages found no where else but on the Earth's largest desert. I know we see deserts as 'lifeless' but on the contrary, they teem with life just under and over the sand, people thrive there as their cultures sprung from the sands and oasis that dot the landscape.
Simply put, there is nothing there to terraform, it's been terraformed for millions of years.
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because I didn't feel like adding to a map that already existed
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