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LucyNuggler
03/27/09

In reply to Amazing Terraforming Projects - Real and Imaginary
Uh, I think you should look up the definition of "terraforming".
"Terraforming.
To transform (a landscape) on another planet into one having the characteristics of landscapes on Earth."

"Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to those of Earth to make it habitable by humans."

By definition terraforming isn't something done on earth, it's done on other planets. So no, humans have not been terraforming since the early days, and in fact never have.
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tetracycloide
03/27/09

@LucyNuggler: terraforming and geoengineering are both kinds of planetary enginerring differing only in the location at which the work is done. it is not that large a dictional stretch to use the two terms as if they were synonyms.
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Elizabeth Weinbloom
03/27/09

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Don't forget to speak for the trees (and pick up a thneed):

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(btw, what happened to the "preview post" button?)
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/27/09

@Elizabeth Weinbloom: Goddamn trees ate it.
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jesustonighter
03/27/09

In reply to Amazing Terraforming Projects - Real and Imaginary
Someone told me terraforming mars would be impossible because of its weak magnetosphere.shame
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/27/09

@jesustonighter: Nothing a good shovel and a few centuries of hard work can't solve!
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LittleDragon
03/27/09

In reply to Amazing Terraforming Projects - Real and Imaginary
The great pyrimids were not tombs or landing pads for space ships, they were early attempts at green houses. I knew it!

any one else see the red laser coming out of the Doctor's mouth?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/27/09

@LittleDragon: I thought it was a rather impractical Silly Straw.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/27/09

In reply to Amazing Terraforming Projects - Real and Imaginary
Is there anyone I can hire to do this on my backyard? I have enough undergrowth there to start my own rain forest.
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Ruthless, If you let me
03/27/09

@crashedpc: Why would you want to change that? It sounds like you've already started a rainforest.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/27/09

@BullLifter: I want MORE trees, and I want them now. And poison dart frogs.
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Ruthless, If you let me
03/27/09

@crashedpc: If you were in LA, I could maybe do something about the frogs; but then you'd have no proto-rainforest for them.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/27/09

@BullLifter: Too bad; I'm in the hippie-infested Bay Area, so I have to make sure my frogs don't have any growth hormones in them.
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