What do you want to see happen in your life time?

[Mikey]

With the density of the atmosphere, and it's chemical makeup, it would probably be easier to seed Venus with microbes to transform the atmosphere than it would be to somehow artificially inflate Mars' to anything like sea level PSI.

I can't imagine anytime in the foreseeable future that we'd be able to engineer microbes that could withstand Venus. Remember, we're still working with organic life, here.

[Tsukiyumi]

With the density of the atmosphere, and it's chemical makeup, it would probably be easier to seed Venus with microbes to transform the atmosphere than it would be to somehow artificially inflate Mars' to anything like sea level PSI.

I can't imagine anytime in the foreseeable future that we'd be able to engineer microbes that could withstand Venus. Remember, we're still working with organic life, here.

I don't know; we've encountered plenty of microbes that can thrive in those conditions. The stuff that lives in and around black smokers (the undersea type) being a good example. We've gotten pretty good at engineering genes, so I don't see it as too much of a stretch to think we could start something like that within a century or two. The trick would be to make the microbes change the atmosphere to suit us.

Without a magnetosphere, we won't be "terraforming" Mars for a very long time; I believe Venus is a better candidate. We could start colonizing Mars sooner, though.

[Mikey]

IDK. Being adapted to thrive on hydrigen sulfide is a very different thing from living on a planet with high degrees of it in the atmosphere, when that planet also happens to have atmospheric conditions of near constant winds in the triple digits as far as MPH; temperatures consistently in the range of "pottery kiln;" etc.

[IanKennedy]

They're already making them. Honda has one on general release in the US (where there are pumps currently available). Merc has one coming any moment now. Give it a few years they'll be common place.

[Reliant121]

Although they are on limited release, like a car contract if you will. I certainly wouldn't sign up, and I definately wouldn't if I had to pay a premium price tag.

[Bryan Moore]

Outside of Granite having a paragraph without using British slang, I think it'd be awesome to see the Bering Strait bridge completed. Then I'd hitchhike it!

[Monroe]

And Venus is a scorched wasteland. I'd prefer Mars, if it were up to me.

True, but Venus has everything we need on it. Just has plenty of things we don't need.

[Sionnach Glic]

Yeah, that's the problem.

[Mikey]

Granite having a paragraph without using British slang

Now that's just pure fantasy!

[Mark]

One I'd never even dreamed possible until you mentioned it. Could it be done, I wonder?????????

[kostmayer]

Microsoft hosts Space Elevator Conference

Rest assured, the jokes have been done already

[Tyyr]

Catgirls

[Teaos]

You should have joined sooner, Blackstar would have liked you.

[stitch626]

Catgirls

I've seen them. Not so appealing in real life.

[Tsukiyumi]

You should have joined sooner, Blackstar would have stalked you.

Fixed.