Topic: maybe we get planet Mercury properly scanned
boof started this discussion 4 weeks ago #137,518
some spaceships are there now
https://apnews.com/article/mercury-bepicolombo-spacecraft-8840475f5f873b9bcc7245f45ffdc50c
https://apnews.com/article/mercury-bepicolombo-spacecraft-8840475f5f873b9bcc7245f45ffdc50c
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 7 hours later[^] [v] #1,456,483
I'm glad we can see this stuff, although I'm mostly just interested in the photos to be honest. That and the sci-fi prospects of towing it out this way and terraforming.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 33 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,486
Betting the people live underground.
boof (OP) replied with this 4 weeks ago, 2 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,492
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Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 8 hours later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,579
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> I'm glad we can see this stuff, although I'm mostly just interested in the photos to be honest. That and the sci-fi prospects of towing it out this way and terraforming.
If you’re interested in the idea of humans terraforming another world, you should look into Saturn’s moon Titan. It’s the only other object in the solar system besides Earth that has lakes and rivers. It has a more dense atmosphere than Earth which is mostly liquid nitrogen, so if it wasn’t as cold as it is, in theory you could survive there without a pressure suit because it’s well within the range that humans could survive. The Earth’s atmosphere is also mostly nitrogen. Although, Titan doesn’t have oxygen in its atmosphere, but its crust is made from frozen water ice, and it is believed to have a global subsurface ocean of liquid water, so it has cryovolcanoes thag erupt liquid water instead of magma, and it has a weather cycle and seasons except it rains liquid methane, and the lakes and rivers are liquid methane. Since Titan has water, the chemical formula for water is H2O, so in theory, it would not be outside the realm of possibility that we could add oxygen into the atmosphere of Titan. It would actually be much much easier to terraform than Mars because Mars actually lacks enough frozen CO2 at its poles to maintain a dense atmosphere like Earth even if we warmed mars up. And CO2 is poisonous to humans anyway. The only issue is it’s further out in the solar system so we don’t have the technology to send humans there. Also Juptier’s moon Europa has a global subsurface ocean with twice as much liquid water as all of Earth’s oceans, and Saturn’s moon Enceladus also is an ice world with a global subsurface ocean. So it is possible there could be life in the outer solar system living underneath ice sheets on moons. But we recently cut the NASA budget because of Trump.
> I'm glad we can see this stuff, although I'm mostly just interested in the photos to be honest. That and the sci-fi prospects of towing it out this way and terraforming.
If you’re interested in the idea of humans terraforming another world, you should look into Saturn’s moon Titan. It’s the only other object in the solar system besides Earth that has lakes and rivers. It has a more dense atmosphere than Earth which is mostly liquid nitrogen, so if it wasn’t as cold as it is, in theory you could survive there without a pressure suit because it’s well within the range that humans could survive. The Earth’s atmosphere is also mostly nitrogen. Although, Titan doesn’t have oxygen in its atmosphere, but its crust is made from frozen water ice, and it is believed to have a global subsurface ocean of liquid water, so it has cryovolcanoes thag erupt liquid water instead of magma, and it has a weather cycle and seasons except it rains liquid methane, and the lakes and rivers are liquid methane. Since Titan has water, the chemical formula for water is H2O, so in theory, it would not be outside the realm of possibility that we could add oxygen into the atmosphere of Titan. It would actually be much much easier to terraform than Mars because Mars actually lacks enough frozen CO2 at its poles to maintain a dense atmosphere like Earth even if we warmed mars up. And CO2 is poisonous to humans anyway. The only issue is it’s further out in the solar system so we don’t have the technology to send humans there. Also Juptier’s moon Europa has a global subsurface ocean with twice as much liquid water as all of Earth’s oceans, and Saturn’s moon Enceladus also is an ice world with a global subsurface ocean. So it is possible there could be life in the outer solar system living underneath ice sheets on moons. But we recently cut the NASA budget because of Trump.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc double-posted this 4 weeks ago, 2 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,580
It would be really cool if we had more missions to the outer solar system. Personally I think Mercury is a bit less interesting and the fact it’s so close to the sun makes it hard to for me to imagine colonizing it. But Titan is really cool. It’s the closest thing we have in our solar system to Earth that isn’t Earth.https://youtu.be/uyKOLxBrVwI
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc triple-posted this 4 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,581
The moon actually has distinct seasons and weather.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc quadruple-posted this 4 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,582
Unfortunately I highly doubt any life forms single celled or multi cellular or whatever they are living in complete darkness underneath ice sheets that are miles thick are likely to be more intelligent than an octopus or something. So we probably couldn’t ever communicate with them or gain any technological advantage from discovering them. But if they exist that would still be really cool because it would prove that we aren’t alone in the universe which would mean that the odds of other intelligent civilizations existing would be higher. Especially if life arose multiple times in our solar system instead of once that would imply life isn’t rare. The only problem is we need to get underneath those ice sheets and we haven’t done that yet.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc quintuple-posted this 4 weeks ago, 5 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,583
Tbh the fact that humanity has invested so few resources in that despite the fact we know there’s a place with more liquid water out there than Earth is kinda surprising to me.