Quote:The one thing that keeps tweaking me on Venusian terraforming is the heat. It's really freaking hot on the surface. Lead melts on the surface, and that's a bit beyond extremophile bacteria's tolerance range. The surface needs to be cooled down to the point where it's like the sulfur pools at Yellowstone first.
In any case, while it's pushing the envelope of disbelief, I wouldn't exactly count it out. Handwavium-altered objects are far too odd to discount so easily. Even the organic ones...possibly especially the organic ones.
I like the idea of having biomod plants in the atmosphere working to break down some of that CO2, though. Hell, the atmosphere is thick enough and deep enough that you could have an entire airborne ecosystem of terraforming plants sucking up that carbon dioxide. Plenty of room for broadleaf to "evolve" without requiring us to cool the surface down from blast-furnace first.---
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