Here's something the Venus and Mars Terraforming Projects would certainly know about:
From the BBC, an article on the sloppy, random and hodge-podge "terraforming" of Ascension Isle, and how in just a few decades it turned into a thriving ecology that couldn't exist anywhere else.
Why
is this useful? Because it suggests that you don't need to be
incredibly careful and precise when you try to start an ecosystem -- you
just have to throw enough living things together fast enough.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
From the BBC, an article on the sloppy, random and hodge-podge "terraforming" of Ascension Isle, and how in just a few decades it turned into a thriving ecology that couldn't exist anywhere else.
Why
is this useful? Because it suggests that you don't need to be
incredibly careful and precise when you try to start an ecosystem -- you
just have to throw enough living things together fast enough.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.